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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesbulevar
Pronunciation / Transliteration: bu-le-βar
"El bulevar principal está muy iluminado por la noche."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A broad urban avenue, typically featuring wide sidewalks and trees.
"The grand bullevard was lined with bustling cafés and historic chestnut trees." - 2
A primary thoroughfare designed for heavy metropolitan traffic combined with pedestrian spaces.
"City planners designed the new bullevard to ease downtown congestion."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the German compound word 'Boulevard' blended with a phonetic or dialectal representation of related urban street designations. Originally stemming from the Middle French 'boulevard', meaning rampart or bulwark, it evolved through Germanic linguistic contexts to describe major landscaped thoroughfares.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Bullevard" is said worldwide
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boulevard
Transliteration: bu-luh-vahr
"Nous avons marché le long du grand boulevard."
Boulevard
Transliteration: bu-luh-vart
"Der breite Boulevard ist voller Menschen."
viale
Transliteration: vya-le
"Camminavano lungo il viale alberato."
bulevar
Transliteration: bu-le-βar
"El bulevar principal está muy iluminado por la noche."
bulevar
Transliteration: bu-le-var
"Eles passeavam pelo bulevar arborizado."
राजमार्ग
Transliteration: rajmarg
"यह चौड़ा राजमार्ग शहर के केंद्र से गुजरता है।"
林荫大道
Transliteration: lín yīn dà dào
"许多行人在林荫大道上散步。"
대대로
Transliteration: daedaero
"그들은 아름다운 대로를 따라 걸었다."
大通り
Transliteration: oödori
"その街には大きくて綺麗な大通りがあります。"
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