Synonyms for alley
ˈæl ial·ley

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.8 / 6 votes

1. alley

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.4 / 5 votes

1. alley, alleyway, back streetnoun

   a narrow street with walls on both sides

   Synonyms:
   bowling alley, back street, skittle alley, alleyway

2. bowling alley, alley, skittle alleynoun

   a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins

   Synonyms:
   bowling alley, back street, skittle alley, alleyway

Matched Categories

1. • Lane
   • Street

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. alleynoun

   Synonyms:
   walk, passage

2. alleynoun

   Synonyms:
   lane, SLUM, narrow street

3. alleynoun

   Synonyms:
   taw, large marble

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. alleynoun

   Synonyms:
   passage, lane, byway, cul-de-sac (blind alley)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "alley":

   alleyway, driveway, gangway, aisle, allée, impasse, lane, deadlock

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. alley

   Synonyms:
   See Lateral alley
   

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How to use alley in a sentence?

1. Martin Mull:

   Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

2. Beth Ferrier:

   I woke up six hours later dumped in the back of my car in the alley.

3. Alexander Sandoval:

   I grabbed my son and tried to break into one of the local buildings, but I couldn’t, i kept running and ran into an alley and put my son in a garbage dumpster, so he could be safe.

4. Terry Bradshaw:

   This is great, right up my alley, it’s an awareness program that I got involved with for people over 65. Just go see your doctor and see if the pneumococcal vaccine is something you should take.

5. Cecil Williams:

   A student accidentally broke a window, when he broke that window in this bowling alley, everyone started running, and I did, too.