avenue

A wide road, often with trees along its sides.

• They walked along the avenue.
• Tall trees lined both sides of the avenue.
• Our hotel stands on a busy avenue.

Similar words: boulevard

Common phrases: tree-lined avenue, wide avenue, along the avenue

A possible way to achieve something or deal with a problem.

• We must explore every avenue.
• She is considering new avenues for raising money.
• Legal action remains one possible avenue.

How to use it: avenue for something (The agreement opens an avenue for cooperation.)

Similar words: way, approach, option

Common phrases: explore an avenue, avenue for something, avenue of research

A passage or route that lets you enter or leave a place.

• The narrow avenue led into the courtyard.
• Soldiers guarded every avenue of approach.
• The river offered an avenue of escape from the castle.

Similar words: route, passage, approach

Common phrases: avenue of approach, avenue of escape, avenue into something