Pb03  +  560773 Sun, 31 Aug 08 05:22 PM 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. Thanks pb -- StartFragment> 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. Pb03 Joined on Tue, Apr 3 2007 Full Member 258

	Grammar Geek  +  560780 Sun, 31 Aug 08 06:10 PM The town is so small that there is only one street.   Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Philip  +  560807 Sun, 31 Aug 08 09:28 PM Grammar Geek “ The town is so small that there is only one street. ” There are many such towns in Alaska. Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,738 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	Pb03  +  560926 Mon, 01 Sep 08 07:33 AM 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 Pb03

	Vorpar  +  560965 Mon, 01 Sep 08 09:50 AM It's a play on the outdated idiom "one-horse town".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. Vorpar Joined on Tue, Sep 20 2005 Santa Barbara, CA Regular Member 940 Idioms

	Grammar Geek  +  561045 Mon, 01 Sep 08 01:48 PM 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. Grammar Geek