What does avenue mean?
Word: Avenue
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Avenue means a wide road in a town, often with trees on both sides. It can also mean a way of reaching a goal.
Synonyms: road, boulevard
How do you spell avenue?
Syllables: av - e - nue
Tricky part: The last sound is like new, but it is spelt nue.
Watch out for: avenu, avenew
Memory tip: End it the way continue and rescue end: a u followed by a silent e.
Idioms and Phrases
- explore every avenue: To try every possible way of solving a problem. Example: "Before giving up, the team explored every avenue to find the lost puppy."
Avenue in a sentence
Example 1: The avenue near our school is lined with gulmohar trees.
Example 2: We walked down the avenue to the market.
Example 3: Shops and cafes line both sides of the new avenue near the station.
Fun Fact
The Champs-Elysees in Paris is one of the best-known avenues in the world; one end leads to the Arc de Triomphe.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The school band marched down the avanue to the town hall on carnival day.
a) avanue
b) marched
c) carnival
d) town
Show answer
a) avanue. The vowel after the v is e: av-e-nue.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
unevae
a) venue
b) revenue
c) avenge
d) avenue
Show answer
d) avenue. Revenue needs an r and avenge a g, and venue is a letter short, so all six letters make avenue.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) neibourhood
b) avenue
c) pavemant
d) intersecsion
Show answer
b) avenue. Avenue ends in nue. Pavement has an e before the n, neighbourhood needs gh, and intersection ends in tion.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: avenue
a) river
b) garden
c) street
d) bridge
Show answer
c) street. A street is a road in a town, and an avenue is a wide one.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In which sentence does avenue mean a way of doing something?
a) We drove down the avenue to the museum.
b) The avenue was lined with tall neem trees.
c) Online classes opened a new avenue for learning music.
d) Our house is at the far end of the avenue.
Show answer
c) Online classes opened a new avenue for learning music.
2. A tree-lined avenue is ____.
a) a garden behind a house
b) a narrow path through a forest
c) a park full of tall trees
d) a wide road with trees along it
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d) a wide road with trees along it
