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How to spell boulevard

What it means: A wide street or thoroughfare.

In a sentence: The family walked down the busy boulevard to get ice cream. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as boulavard or boulevarde.

Same family: avenue, street, road, highway, parkway. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Boulevard comes from French, where it originally referred to a broad walkway on top of a city wall. Over time, the word shifted to mean a wide, tree-lined street in a town or city.

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