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Definition of Boulevard
1. Noun. A wide street or thoroughfare.
Definition of Boulevard
1. n. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
Definition of Boulevard
1. Noun. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boulevard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boulevard
Literary usage of Boulevard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by United States, Congress (1912)
"Occidental boulevard to First street, First street to Occidental boulevard.
Occidental boulevard to Sunset boulevard. Sunset boulevard to Alvarado street, ..."
2. Annual Report by Minneapolis (Minn.), Board of Park Commissioners (1903)
"This grand boulevard and driveway should not terminate at University avenue, hut
should in time be continued on through one of the avenues in the southeast ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"... contagion from man to man till it ran westward from the boulevard Bonne Nouvelle
into the boulevard Poissoniere, and gained the boulevard Montmartre, ..."
4. The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History by Albert J. Schmidt (1989)
"The disappearance of the Belyi Gorod Walls, gates, and towers after 1750, it must
be remembered, did not result in an instant emergence of a boulevard Ring. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1891)
"Southern boulevard R. Co. however, and thereby imposed upon the defendants a
burden which the)' had no right to do, for the law will not allow even a ..."