driveway
nounUS /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/
Etymology From drive + way.
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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.1988 April 23, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 127:
- They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.2020 October 28, Franco La Monica, Catch 44, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:
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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.1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest”, in Environmental Assessment for the North Powder Wild and Scenic River Management Plan, US Department of Agriculture, page 12:
- 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.2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest, retrieved 13 Sep 2023:
- Synonyms
- drive, service road, access road
- Derived terms
- driveway doesn't go all the way to the road, someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road, driveway moment, shared driveway
- Related terms
- drive away