What is the difference between a street, avenue, road and boulevard?

What is the difference between "street", "road", "avenue", "Boulevard", "lane", etc?

  • What is the difference between "street", "road", "avenue", "Boulevard", "lane", etc? Or do we now use them randomly to sound "pretty"?

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    Boulevard is usually a major surface street with 2 or more lanes each direction. Street, Road, Avenue and Lane can all be used as commercial and residential district names names. Road names are assigned at time of construction and can be changed by petition of the neighborhood affected to the city government.

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road=way between places made with prepared surface.street=public road in a city with buildings on one or either side.avenue=wide road or path lined with trees leading to a large house.lane=narrow country road

chillyoung

It's the name. If we call everyone "Joe" and had no last names we would all be pretty confused right?

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