Street suffix

A street suffix is the word that follows the name of a street to further describe that street.

List

• Alley usually refers to a rear service road used as access to garages, service doors, Dumpsters, etc. Normally, they do not contain addresses themselves.
• Annex would appear to be another road in addition to the main roadway.
• Arcade usually has shops along it
• Arch usually refers to a curving street, often in the shape of an arch, used similar to crescent
• Avenue one of the most common suffixes, can refer to a small residential street or a major roadway.
• Bend usually designates a short street with at least one bend in it, used similar to crescent.
• Bay is usually a small residential street in a half-square shape that connects to the same road twice.
• Brae a Scottish name for a steep hillside.
• Boardwalk is almost universally a pedestrian-only space along an ocean or other waterfront.
• Boulevard usually indicates a wide street, often tree-lined, that is of major importance.
• Bypass is usually used after another suffix, for example: "Tenth Street Bypass".
• Circle is usually a small residential street whose shape is circular.
• Close refers to any dead-end street. Common in Great Britain.
• Complex is similar to a plaza, containing a group of the same type of buildings.
• Concession road (mainly written as Concession, for example: "Tenth Concession") is commonly found in rural Ontario.
• Court is usually a residential cul-de-sac.
• Cove is similar to court, and often named after the street it connects to. It is common in and around Memphis, Tennessee, where it is also commonly used as a synonym for "cul-de-sac."
• Crescent is usually a short curved street.
• Drive is a very common suffix commonly used in suburban areas both for residential streets and major roadways.
• Drung is used exclusively in the island of Newfoundland and refers to narrow lanes.
• Esplanade usually designates a pedestrian-only space.
• Expressway is usually used for limited-access highways.
• Extension is usually used after another suffix, for example: "Robinson Street Extension". It refers to a newer portion of a pre-existing street.
• Ferry is often used to describe a long street that connects two much larger Parkways. Ferry is commonly used in the Southeast region of the United States.
• Field is rarely used as a suffix itself outside of Newfoundland, and refers to residential streets that run through fields.
• Freeway is usually used for limited-access highways where no toll is collected.
• Garden or Gardens is usually used to designate a street populated by garden homes or rowhouses.
• Gate is usually a short street that serves as an entrance to a subdivision or a shortcut between two larger streets.
• Green is usually a small residential street, often with a park-like setting.
• Grove is usually a small residential street, usually surrounded by woods.
• Heights usually refers to a short residential street that travels uphill, or is on top of high ground compared to neighbouring streets.
• High street the principal road in a British town.
• Highway can designate a limited-access highway or a major national, state, or provincial route.
• Hill usually refers to a street that travels upon a hill.
• Lane is commonly used for dead-ends, usually referring to a small residential street. Lanes are often privately owned.
• Line is sometimes used in Ontario as a synonym of concession road.
• Loop is usually used for streets whose shape is that of a half-circle.
• Mall usually designates a pedestrian-only space.
• Manor is usually a small residential street, often a cul-de-sac.
• Mews is usually a small urban residential street, similar to an alley behind a more prominent street.
• "Nene" is exclusively used in Tallahassee, FL. It is the native Seminole word for trail.
• Parade a British name for a road running by the seafront.
• Park refers to short, residential streets, usually dead-ends.
• Parkway occasionally designates limited-access highways, but usually used in a way similar to boulevard.
• Path is usually a small residential street.
• Pike historically referred to a tolled roadway, but can also be used for a major road. Pikes are common in the Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, and Appalachia regions of the US.
• Place is usually a small residential street or a narrow street in a commercial district.
• Plantation usually refers to a long residential dead-end street. for example: "Westover Plantation".
• Plaza often refers to either a pedestrian-only street or a suburban shopping area's internal roadways.
• Point(e) is usually a residential cul-de-sac.
• Private is used as a mandatory sole suffix for all private streets in Ottawa (example: "Kelso Private"). In other jurisdictions, "Private" is usually not a suffix on its own and is placed after street
• Promenade usually designates a pedestrian-only space.
• Road is a very common suffix used to describe a main roadway in both residential and commercial areas but is used extensively for other types of streets.
  • Side road and Sideline are generally perpendicular to concession roads in England.
• Route usually refers to highways, and typically includes a route number, for example, US Route 19.
• Row usually refers to streets with townhouses or rowhouses, but is also commonly used for any residential street.
• Run is common only in Halifax, Nova Scotia and refers to long, winding streets, which are often dead-ends.
• Spur is a road that juts off another road and may or may not rejoin the main road.
• Square is often used for streets that form a square or rectangle, often with a center park or plaza. In Europe, towns often have a large square at their centre, used for markets, gatherings, etc.
• Stravenue is used to designate a diagonal roadway crossing a grid of north-south streets and east-west avenues (or vice versa). It is found only in Tucson, Arizona.
• Street is a very common suffix that can describe small residential, intermediate and major arterial roadways.
• Terrace historically was a small residential street that was elevated above the surroundings, for example, on a hillside, but is now used in a more generic way to describe a residential street.
• Thruway is usually used for limited-access highways.
• Trace is usually a small residential street.
• Trail often designates a residential street but can also include major roadways.
• Turnpike is usually used for limited-access highways.
• Townline is a primarily rural road in Ontario that marks township boundaries.
• Viaduct usually indicates a street that serves as a connector between two other streets, as well as for bridges with several smaller spans.
• Walk usually designates a pedestrian-only space.
• Way and -way: wide range of use, from an alley-like definition to a residential street to a major roadway in new developments.
• Wood or Woods usually refers to short residential streets that are surrounded by trees, similar to the use of Grove.
• Wynd a Scottish name for a narrow lane, often linking two larger roads together.

References

• United States Postal Service: C1 Street Suffix Abbreviations