Driveway

Quick meaning: Driveway is a noun meaning (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.

Meaning

(UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) Synonym of droveway.
2. (US) A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security.

Example Sentences

They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.

The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.

The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor.

Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for driveway

Depending on context, synonyms include drive, droveway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drive, parkway, lane, roadway, sidewalk, carriageway.

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