Acacia Avenue

English

Etymology

acacia (“A flowering shrub often grown ornamentally”) avenue (“a broad tree-lined street”). Streets named after trees are common on planned housing estates.

Proper noun

Acacia Avenue

1. (UK) A placeholder name for a residential street.
   • 2011 February 14, Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, and Inheritance Tax For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 284:

     To Paul Hubbard of 11 Acacia Avenue, Anytown, Anyshire I give the residue of my estate.

2. (UK) An archetypal middle-class suburban residential street.
   • 1948, Alon Kadish, quoting Lt. Whidborne, The British Army in Palestine and the 1948 War: Containment, Withdrawal and Evacuation, Routledge, →ISBN:

     In company lines intricate fences have sprung up around fantastic gardens. The officers' lines have begun to acquire an “Acacia Avenue” aspect.

   • 2004 January 1, David A. Reisman, Schumpeter's Market: Enterprise and Evolution, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 107:

     Nor, however, is the 'bourgeois' the Acacia Avenue accountant with two children in boarding-school education.

   • 2013 June 20, Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, The Long War: (Long Earth 2), Random House, →ISBN, page 117:

     A woman worked a garden behind a neat whitewashed fence, a real Acacia Avenue kind of scene.