alleyway


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al·ley·way

 (ăl′ē-wā′)
n.
A narrow passage between buildings.
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alleyway

(ˈælɪˌweɪ)
n
a narrow passage; alley
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al•ley•way

(ˈæl iˌweɪ)

n.
1. an alley or lane.
2. a narrow passageway.
[1780–90, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.alleyway - a narrow street with walls on both sidesalleyway - a narrow street with walls on both sides
street - a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
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alleyway

noun passage, walk, lane, alley, pathway, passageway, backstreet The robbers ran off down an alleyway.
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Translations
kuja

alleyway

[ˈæliweɪ] nruelle f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

alleyway

[ˈælɪˌweɪ] nvicolo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Whether it were a group of shrubs or an alleyway or a vista of water that we were passing, you would halt before me, and stand gazing at my face as though you were showing me possessions of your own.
He worked quickly, boring cask after cask down the alleyway that led to deeper twilight.
Here, in long tiers, with alleyways between, the water-casks were chocked safely on their sides.
By turning their heads they could see through an- other window, along an alleyway that ran behind the Main Street stores and into the back door of Abner Groff's bakery.
He had seen Kai Shang garrotte a man at Pai-sha in a dark alleyway back of Loo Kotai's place.
He would leave Bill in the barn to shovel the manure into the litter-carrier--a good fifteen-minute job; he would return in half an hour to find him sitting in the alleyway, staring down into his idle scoop.
By-and-by he says: 'Was that you talking just now in the port alleyway?' 'Yes, sir.' 'With the third engineer?' 'Yes, sir.' He walks off to starboard, and sits under the dodger on a little campstool of his, and for half an hour perhaps he makes no sound, except that I heard him sneeze once.
Fosh-bal-soj displayed little of the cowardice of those that had attacked Bradley in the alleyway, but that may have been because he had so slight opportunity, for Bradley had him by the throat before he could utter a cry and with his right hand struck him heavily and repeatedly upon his face and over his heart--ugly, smashing, short-arm jabs of the sort that take the fight out of a man in quick time.
I passed around by the alleyway and crawled up the black steps, on which I collapsed.
Wirral Magistrates' Court heard how, on April 5 this year, RSPCA inspector Anthony Joynes was asked by environmental health officers to go to an alleyway off Parkside Road, in Birkenhead.
RESIDENTS have won a fight to close an alleyway notorious for anti-social behaviour and drug deals.
alleyway death A 42-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Damian Howl who was found dead in an alleyway.