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Definition of Avenue
Avenue

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

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Avenue Quotations

The ear is the avenue to the heart.
Voltaire

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
Spencer Bachus

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
James Larkin

Avenue Translations

avenue in Dutch is laan, dreef
avenue in Italian is viale
avenue in Portuguese is avenida
avenue in Spanish is avenida

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