boulevard
Plural: boulevards
Noun
- a wide street or thoroughfare
- A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
- The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
- A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- The grassy area in the middle of some streets; A refuge island.
Examples
- We live on Sunset Boulevard.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
boulevard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordboulevard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boulevard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
boulevard: valid Words With Friends Word