Synonyms for by-way
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wey |
| Phonetic Transcription : weɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for by-way Other synonyms for the word by-way
- access
- admission
- admittance
- advance
- alley
- alternate route
- aqueduct
- asphalt
- back alley
- back road
- back street
- backstreet
- bearing
- beat
- beaten path
- beaten track
- beeline
- boards
- boardwalk
- branch
- bricks
- by-street
- bylane
- bypass
- bypath
- byroad
- bystreet
- byway
- canal
- catwalk
- channel
- circuit
- circuitous route
- circumbendibus
- circumnavigation
- circumvention
- cloister
- cobblestone
- concrete
- conduit
- crosscut
- crossing
- crossroad
- crotch
- dead end
- detour
- digression
- distance
- divergence
- diversion
- door
- drag
- dragway
- drive
- duct
- elbowroom
- entrance
- entrée
- entry
- esplanade
- expressway
- extent
- flow
- footpath
- footprints
- footsteps
- fork
- forward motion
- freeway
- gangway
- gate
- gateway
- groove
- headway
- highway
- ingress
- itinerary
- journey
- lane
- lap
- length
- line
- main drag
- mall
- march
- mark
- marks
- meandering
- movement
- opening
- orbit
- parking lot
- parkway
- pass
- passage
- path
- pathway
- pavement
- pier
- pike
- place
- platform
- plot
- procedure
- program
- progress
- progression
- promenade
- rail
- rambling
- range
- ride
- road
- roadway
- room
- round
- roundabout way
- rounds
- route
- row
- run
- runaround
- rut
- scent
- scope
- secondary highway
- service road
- short cut
- shortcut
- side road
- sidewalk
- space
- spoor
- stone's throw
- stream
- street
- stretch
- stroll
- substitute
- subway
- superhighway
- tack
- tail
- temporary route
- tendency
- terrace
- thataway
- thoroughfare
- throughway
- thruway
- trace
- track
- trail
- train
- trajectory
- trend
- turf
- turnpike
- viaduct
- wake
- walk
- walkway
- wandering
- watercourse
- way
Définition of by-way
Origin :- Old English weg "road, path, course of travel," from Proto-Germanic *wegaz (cf. Old Saxon, Dutch weg, Old Norse vegr, Old Frisian wei, Old High German weg, German Weg, Gothic wigs "way"), from PIE *wegh- "to move" (see weigh). Most of the extended senses developed in Middle English. Adverbial meaning "very, extremely" is by 1986, perhaps from phrase all the way. Ways and means "resources at a person's disposal" is attested from early 15c. Way-out (adj.) "original, bold," is jazz slang, first recorded 1940s. Encouragement phrase way to go is short for that's the way to go.
- As in lane : noun road
- As in path : noun course, way
- As in road : noun path upon which travel occurs
- As in route : noun path over which someone or something travels
- As in street : noun path upon which travel occurs
- As in trail : noun path, track
- As in walk : noun pathway
- As in way : noun direction, route
- As in side street : noun small street
- As in roadway : noun road
- As in superhighway : noun road
- As in thruway : noun road
- As in course : noun path, channel
- As in detour : noun indirect course
- I think that just now I was on the point of turning into a by-way.
- Extract from : « The Squirrel Inn » by Frank R. Stockton
- Loitering by the way is pleasant; through the by-way we may learn the way to the house.
- Extract from : « Growing Up » by Jennie M. Drinkwater
- Flora hurried from the by-way with her charge, in burning shame and indignation.
- Extract from : « Merkland » by Mrs. Oliphant
- You are Kate Atheling, and I will not have you sought in any by-way.
- Extract from : « I, Thou, and the Other One » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- And suppose that I did tread this by-way, what certainty was there that it would lead to the goal?
- Extract from : « A Sister's Love » by W. Heimburg
- There was no by-way that would lead him around the dangers that were sure to beset him.
- Extract from : « The Coming of the Law » by Charles Alden Seltzer
- It is, however, far the best to explore this by-way from the other end and to come down stream by its means.
- Extract from : « The Thames » by G. E. Mitton
- Perhaps some one of the party will not heed the summons, but chooses 149 out some by-way of his own.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Let us enter into no by-way which would lead us off the path marked straight out before us.
- Extract from : « Lord Randolph Churchill » by Winston Spencer Churchill
- Famine and fire, twin angels of destruction that lurked in every by-way of the city, were waiting to take their toll.
- Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown
Antonyms for by-way
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