Two parallel rows of standing stones or a grand ceremonial way bordered by ditches and banks of earth leading to a ceremonial centre such as at Stonehenge

An avenue is a type of archaeological site. It is made up of lines of banks, ditches, stones, timber posts or trees. Avenues often seem to mark out a route to another monument.

This page refers to the archaeological feature known as an avenue.

Originally, a broad passageway bordered by trees. Now synonymous with street or road and of no special significance.

a line of approach; "they explored every avenue they could think of"; "it promises to open new avenues to understanding"

a wide street or thoroughfare

a road with trees planted on both sides

a broad urban thoroughfare, usually tree-lined.

An access road or street.

Traditionally, an avenue is a straight road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its French source venir "to arrive" indicates, to emphasize the arrival at a landscape or architectural feature. In most cases, the trees planted in an avenue will be all of the same species or cultivar, so as to give uniform appearance along the full length of the avenue. The French term, allée, is confined normally to avenues planted in parks and landscape gardens.