road and street

The difference

A street is a road with houses on either side. We use street for roads in towns or villages, but not for country roads.

• Cars can park on both sides of the street here.
• Our village has only got one street.

Road is used for both town and country.

• Cars can park on both sides of our road.
• The road out of our village goes up a steep hill. (not The street out of our village …)

Street names: stress

In street names we normally stress the word Road, but the word before Street.

• Marylebone ˈRoad
• ˈOxford Street