DRIVEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driveway mean? 

• DRIVEWAY (noun)
  The noun DRIVEWAY has 1 sense:

1. a road leading up to a private house

  Familiarity information: DRIVEWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A road leading up to a private house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drive; driveway; private road

Context example:

they parked in the driveway

Hypernyms ("driveway" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "driveway"):

turnaround (an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around)

 Context examples 

The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)