Dictionary

driveway en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *drīban Old English drīfan Middle English driven English drive English way English driveway From drive + way.

Meanings

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.
   • 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:
   • The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area. 1988 April 14, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 127:
3. (uncommon) Synonym of droveway.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

driveway access · 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

Relateds

drive away

Synonyms

drive (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · droveway · service road (road that enters or circulates through a defined area) · access road (road that enters or circulates through a defined area)

Translations (32)

fr sortie de véhicules (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · cmn 專用支路 /专用支路 (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · sl prehod za vozila (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · fi pihatie (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · cs příjezdová cesta (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · de Auffahrt (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · ga cabhsán (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · nb oppkjørsel (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · sq rruge kalimi (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · sl dovoz (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · nl inrit (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · es vado (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · da indkørsel (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · fi yksityinen ajotie (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · ja 私道 (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · it strada privata (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · ru прое́зд (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · tr garaj yolu (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · nl oprit (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · fr allée (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · ca camí d'accés (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · de Zufahrt (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · sv uppfart (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · es entrada (para coches) (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · ru подъездна́я доро́жка (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · es chaflán (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · es badén (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · de Einfahrt (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · de Ein- und Ausfahrt (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · pl podjazd do domu (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · it passo carrabile (short private road that leads to a house or garage) · cmn 車道 /车道 (short private road that leads to a house or garage)