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Funnily enough my partner (native German speaker - there's only one word for this in German) recently mentioned "the street" and I corrected her saying "no this is not a street it's a road". When trying to explain the difference my first instinct was "a street has buildings on the side, a road is just transportation".

In my European world I think there's pretty much always an unambiguous difference between a street and a road, but "stroad" definitely evokes the places I've seen in sparser urban environments like in USA, South Africa and Australia.

Edit: after more pondering I think you can call the part of a street "the road" to distinguish the part where vehicles drive from the part where humans walk. E.g. "he ran out into the road" might apply where "it's a busy road" would sound wrong.




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