What does driveway mean?
Driveway means (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage..
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/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/ · noun
(UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage..
The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.
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.
Use driveway when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Driveway means (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage..
Common synonyms include drive, service road, access road, droveway.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
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