driveway

CEFRB1

/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A private road leading from a house to the street.
02
noun
Extra detail
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.

Examples

I was wasting time, wandering around the garage, when an old truck swept into driveway.
She managed to back up through the narrow driveway.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

In context

The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.
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.

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The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
1988 April 26, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 127
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 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
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

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