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ˈæl ial·ley

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.8 / 6 votes

  1. alley

    Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

    Synonyms:
    avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

Princeton's WordNet1.4 / 5 votes

  1. alley, alleyway, back streetnoun

    a narrow street with walls on both sides

    Synonyms:
    bowling alley, back street, skittle alley, alleyway

  2. bowling alley, alley, skittle alleynoun

    a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins

    Synonyms:
    bowling alley, back street, skittle alley, alleyway

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Dictionary of English Synonymes2.0 / 3 votes

  1. alleynoun

    Synonyms:
    walk, passage

  2. alleynoun

    Synonyms:
    lane, SLUM, narrow street

  3. alleynoun

    Synonyms:
    taw, large marble

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. alleynoun

    Synonyms:
    passage, lane, byway, cul-de-sac (blind alley)

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "alley":

    alleyway, driveway, gangway, aisle, allée, impasse, lane, deadlock

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD3.0 / 2 votes

  1. alley

    Synonyms:
    See Lateral alley

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How to use alley in a sentence?

  1. Matt Elliott:

    The lower tornado activity has largely been the result of an unfavorable pattern for tornadoes with occasional strong cold fronts shunting the deep, rich, high-quality moisture from the Gulf of Mexico south of Tornado Alley.

  2. Duncan Dickson:

    Since the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, guest expectations have been set on a new level, be Our Guest at Disney and Diagon Alley have only added to that. Every new technology and theming tact that the companies take raises the bar.

  3. Rachel Gordon:

    We've gotten many, many calls from people who wanted it done in their alley or on their buildings, some people are saying it's just a gimmick, but other people hope it will combat some of the smelly areas of San Francisco that have been saturated with urine.

  4. Kelvin Cochran:

    My family was very, very poor, we were living in a shotgun house in an alley – three big brothers, two little sisters.

  5. Gunther Krichbaum:

    I love Britain and want to keep talking to them, But when the rhetoric is driving you at 100 miles per hour up a blind alley, you have to realize that you won't be able to turn round at the end of the blind alley.


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