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noun wide street ADJ. broad, wide | leafy, tree-lined AVENUE + VERB be lined with sth an avenue lined with elms PREP. along, down, in, through, up an/the ~ strolling down a tree-lined avenue way of doing/getting sth ADJ. possible, promising | fruitful VERB + AVENUE explore, pursue, try We need to explore every possible avenue. | exhaust After two months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues. | open (up), provide AVENUE + VERB be open to sb There was only one avenue open to him. PREP. ~ for to provide a new avenue for research | ~ of the two main avenues of enquiry | ~ to an avenue to success
Oxford Collocations Dictionary