streetwards

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English

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Etymology

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From street +‎ -wards.

Adverb

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streetwards (not comparable)

  1. Toward the street.
    • 1931, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies:
      It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square.