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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.

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Approach 76% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Street 76% connected

Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

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Boulevard 92% connected

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adit noun · 78% connection

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried…

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Admission noun · 78% connection

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.

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Admittance noun · 78% connection

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.

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Alley noun · 78% connection

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

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Beyond preposition · 78% connection

At a place or time not yet reached; before.

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Culmination noun · 78% connection

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Debar verb · 78% connection

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude…

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Debouche noun · 78% connection

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.

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Door noun · 78% connection

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

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Doorway noun · 78% connection

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

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Entrance noun · 78% connection

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking posses…

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Entry noun · 78% connection

That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.

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Fricative adjective · 78% connection

Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs…

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Gap noun · 78% connection

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

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Gate noun · 78% connection

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, fig…

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Gateway noun · 78% connection

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate d…

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Hatchway noun · 78% connection

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

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Ingress noun · 78% connection

The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

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