Antonyms for alley
ˈæl ial·ley

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.8 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Lane
   • Street

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.4 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. alleynoun

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

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. alley

   Synonyms:
   See Lateral alley
   

How to use alley in a sentence?

1. Christie Hefner:

   What made it magical was that it had a trap door, it had a secret panel. It had a game room where every game was available without ever having to put a quarter in it. It had a fireman’s pole. It was just a really cool place if you were a kid. It had a bowling alley, an underground pool — it was pretty fun.

2. 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.

3. Ted Kennedy:

   Robert Bork America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids and school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.

4. Gabriella Papadakis:

   We're very pleased with this performance, because we skated really well. We love this program, we love the choreography, we love working on it, there is a mandatory rhythm every year and it works for us every time more or less ... This time, the Tango theme was right up our alley, that is a theme that we love.

5. Cecil Williams:

   A student accidentally broke a window, when he broke that window in this bowling alley, everyone started running, and I did, too.

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