What does boulevard mean?

Definitions for boulevard
ˈbʊl əˌvɑrd, ˈbu lə-boule·vard

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. avenue, boulevardnoun

    a wide street or thoroughfare

Wiktionary

  1. boulevardnoun

    A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

  2. Etymology: From boulevard, from boulevard, from bollevart, of origin, from bolwerk from Middle Dutch bole + 'werk. More at bole, work, bulwark.

Wikipedia

  1. Boulevard

    A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfares, often divided with a central median, and perhaps with side-streets along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery.

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  1. boulevard

    A boulevard is a wide street in a town or city, often lined with trees, with sidewalks on each side, and sometimes having a strip of grass or plants separating different lanes of traffic. It is typically larger than an average street and often a main thoroughfare. Some boulevards may also have shops, restaurants, or other amenities lining the sides.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Boulevardnoun

    originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town

  2. Boulevardnoun

    a public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city

Wikidata

  1. Boulevard

    A boulevard, often abbreviated Blvd, is type of large road, usually running through a city. In modern American usage it often means a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and perhaps with roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery. Larger and busier boulevards usually feature a median. In some countries, the term boulevard is rarely encountered; the term avenue is often used instead.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Boulevard

    bōōl′e-vär, n. a broad walk or promenade bordered with trees, originally applied to those formed upon the demolished fortifications of a town.—n. Boul′evardier, a frequenter of the boulevards. [Fr.—Ger. bollwerk. See Bulwark.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Boulevard

    the rampart of a fortified city converted into a promenade flanked by rows of trees and a feature of Paris in particular, though the boulevard is not always on the line of a rampart.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. boulevard

    (Fr.). An ancient bastion, bulwark, or rampart.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of boulevard in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of boulevard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of boulevard in a Sentence

  1. Piu Eatwell:

    Mark Hansen was a kind of a shady Hollywood mogul type, he owned a number of movie theaters in Hollywood and he was a multimillionaire. He also had a number of rooming houses and his own apartment just off Hollywood Boulevard… He was separated from his wife, who had a house on the Hollywood Hills with their two daughters. He had a great lifestyle in his apartment… where he would invite girls if he liked their looks… he would invite them to stay with obviously a promise that they were going to make it big as movie stars. Sooner or later, they would probably be booted out or end up as dancers in one of his nightclubs.

  2. Van Tassell:

    I was stuck in the middle of the road on Hollywood Boulevard and nobody would stop. the police came and they got the feces out of my eyes so I could sort of see.

  3. Jimmy Kimmel:

    I worry about you. I feel like you are maybe self-destructive, i feel like you're going to be out dressed as Spider-Man on Hollywood Boulevard at the end of this whole thing.

  4. Dale Earnhardt:

    Physically they are all different and are going to provide a different style of racing and a different style of entertainment, the town does have a lot of energy. When we were there doing the burnout on the boulevard, I was upstairs in one of those buildings looking out the window watching and it was clear as day that this was a great relationship and a great partnership.

  5. Alexa Brauner:

    The first sections of the Ringstrasse to be completed were here: the Kaerntner Ring, and the Opernring, the boulevard itself is mostly built on the moat.

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