/av"euh nyooh', -nooh'/ , n.
1. a wide street or main thoroughfare.
2. a means of access or attainment: avenues of escape; avenues to greater power.
3. a way or means of entering into or approaching a place: the various avenues to India.
4. Chiefly Brit.
a. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building.
b. a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.
[ 1590-1600; avenir advenire to come to. See A- 5 , VENUE ]
Syn. 1. See street .