Ăv'e-nūe, n.

n. [Fr. avenue, from avenir, Lat. advenire, to come to.] 1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; any opening or passage by which a place may be entered. “The avenues of the city.” Clarendon. 2. An alley or walk in a park or garden, usually planted on each side with trees. Burke. 3. A wide street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York. [An Americanism.]