boulevard means A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
boulevard is pronounced /ˈbuː.ləˌvɑːd/.
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.
name
- A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
noun
- A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.e.g.“We live on Sunset Boulevard.”
- 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.
Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- boulevardlike 78% match — Resembling or characteristic of a boulevard. vs boulevard →
- boulevardize 68% match — To convert into boulevards. vs boulevard →
- avenue 67% match — A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction. vs boulevard →
- broadway 65% match — The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten. vs boulevard →
- arborway 58% match — An avenue (lined with trees). vs boulevard →
- boulevardier 57% match — A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant. vs boulevard →
- stroad 56% match — A combination of a street and a road that is too wide and fast to be friendly to pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways to move cars efficiently. vs boulevard →
- throughway 56% match — (Normally and officially spelled thruway) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare. vs boulevard →