one-street town ?

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Hi everyone,I'm wondering what "one-street town" refer to?Does that mean "a town that has one-lane on the street" or "a town whose streets are only one-way" or anything else?For your reference, I put some context below.Any comments will be helpful and appreciated.Thankspb------------StartFragment&gt; Lander just might be the coolest little one-street town in Wyoming. Just a stone’s throw from the Wind River Indian Reservation, it’s a rock-climbing and mountaineering mecca attracting folks the region over.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

The town is so small that there is only one street.

Philip · Answer

Grammar GeekThe town is so small that there is only one street.

There are many such towns in Alaska.

Pb03 · Answer

Thanks guys,

That was one of my guesses at first but I thought it was nonesense because no town or village could have only one street, i mean, a way that people can walk or move around.

Now, I guess in this case, the meaning of "street" can be different from the one that I thought.

Would you guys be more specific about the definition of "street" one more time?
(As I know, there are many terms related to the names of "way", such as 'Drive, Avenue, Blvd, and so on..."

Can I understand the street in the context means "a main road that has lots of traffic", not alleys, or Drive between houses?
Or just a way that is named "Street" like 16th St. ?
(Just to mention, in Australia, the road between houses that I lived once was called "street.")

It might be simple for many, I guess but not for me... so ...

Many thanks in advance as always,

pb

Bushee · Answer

My town is a one road town. <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/1.gif' alt='Emotion: smile'/>

Vorpar · Answer

It's a play on the outdated idiom "one-horse town". The town might not literally have one street, but it is a very small town.

Street usually just means a place where cars can travel from one place to another. So, alleys and parking lots wouldn't qualify.

BarbaraPA · Answer

Imagine you have a highway, and it starts as a gas station. Then it expands into a little general store and maybe a restaurant. Then a few more houses come along to tend to these services, and then maybe a tiny hotel is added, and then... well, it's still a VERY small town, but the purpose if its existence originally was to take care of the people who were travelling through. So everything is extended along that main highway.

It's just a VERY small town.

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