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Definition of Driveway
1. Noun. A road leading up to a private house. "They parked in the driveway"
Generic synonyms: Road, Route
Terms within: Turnaround
Derivative terms: Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive
Definition of Driveway
1. n. A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Definition of Driveway
1. Noun. (American English) Short private road that leads to a house or garage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Driveway
1. a private road providing access to a building [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driveway
Literary usage of Driveway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Street Construction: Planning Streets and Designing and by Amory Prescott Folwell (1916)
"A driveway can, for the short distance involved, be made as steep as one in six
... There are several advantages in beginning this driveway slope an inch, ..."
2. Practical Street Construction: Planning Streets and Designing and by Amory Prescott Folwell (1916)
"A driveway can, for the short distance involved, be made as steep as one in six
... There are several advantages in beginning this driveway slope an inch, ..."
3. Annual Report by Minneapolis (Minn.), Board of Park Commissioners (1903)
"This grand boulevard and driveway should not terminate at University avenue, hut
should in time be continued on through one of the avenues in the southeast ..."
4. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Across this area, like a railroad traversing a prairie, stretched the driveway
for our carriages. " Do tourists usually seem delighted with the park ? ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1895)
"A. then conveyed the block above mentioned to C. by a deed describing the land
in part as "running south ... to a driveway running in rear of said lot to be ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Across this area, like a railroad traversing a prairie, stretched the driveway
for our carriages. ..."
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