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A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road. In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as odonyms or hodonyms (from Ancient Greek ὁδός hodós 'road', and ὄνυμα ónuma 'name', i.e., the Doric and Aeolic form of ὄνομα ónoma 'name'). [1]
Decatur Street. Desire Street. Dryades Street. Dumaine Street. Earhart Expressway, an extension of Earhart Boulevard. Elysian Fields Avenue. Esplanade Avenue. Exchange Place (pedestrian only) Felicity Street.
The most unique street names in the world. Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side ...
The United States Postal Service has published a list of the most common city and post office [2] names within the United States, as of 2020: Cities. Post offices. 1 Franklin (31) 1 Clinton (26) 2 Clinton, Washington (29 each) 2 Madison (25)
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially ...
Baxter Street - Lt. Col. Charles Baxter, a hero of the Mexican War who was killed in Chapultepec in 1849. Bleecker Street – Anthony Bleecker (1770–1827). a lawyer, poet and friend of Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant, because the street ran through Bleecker's farm. Bond Street - William Bond, city surveyor.
Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service.
Angel Court – named after a long demolished inn of this name [24] [25] Angel Lane. Angel Street – after a demolished inn of this name; formerly Angle Alley [24] [25] Apothecary Street – after the nearby Worshipful Society of Apothecaries [24] [26] Appold Street. The Arcade (Liverpool Street) – presumably descriptive.