driveway

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/

Definition of driveway

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

  1. (UK, US)A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
  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.
    “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.”
  3. (uncommon)Synonym of droveway.
    “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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From drive + way.

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