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BYWAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does byway mean?
• BYWAY (noun)
The noun BYWAY has 1 sense:
1. a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
Familiarity information: BYWAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("byway" is a kind of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
Context examples
Look here, old fellow, said Morris, it is a capital idea to have all ready in case we want to go horsebacking; but don't you think that one of your snappy carriages with its heraldic adornments in a byway of Walworth or Mile End would attract too much attention for our purposes?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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