Byway

Word BYWAY
Character 5
Hyphenation by way
Pronunciations /ˈbaɪweɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Byway"

What do we mean by byway?

A side road. noun

A secondary or arcane field of study. noun

A by-road; a secluded, private, or obscure way; an out-of-the-way path or course: as, highways and byways. noun

A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. noun

A road that is not frequently travelled noun

An unpopular or arcane field of study noun

A side road little traveled (as in the countryside) noun

A road that is not frequently travelled

(by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study

AKA Hershey Highway, Cadbury Canal Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Byway

The word "byway" in example sentences

And the reason why these best are destroyed is because John Barleycorn stands on every highway and byway, accessible, law-protected, saluted by the policeman on the beat, speaking to them, leading them by the hand to the places where the good fellows and daring ones forgather and drink deep. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, his brainchild remains as probably the loveliest, most adventurous byway in all Peakland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To say that my knowledge of this byway of science fiction is feeble would be a gross overstatement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But conversationally, he's unchanged, with the same tendency to follow a thought like a hound after a badger, chasing it through highway and byway until he finally, triumphantly, grabs it by the throat and drags it home. ❋ Dan Collins (2011)

Across the quiet eight-lane byway near the project is farmland. ❋ James T. Areddy (2011)

I found saloons, on highway and byway, up narrow alleys and on busy thoroughfares, bright-lighted and cheerful, warm in winter, and in summer dark and cool. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We turned down a one-lane byway, driving farther out into the fiercely beautiful land in silence as dusk began to descend. ❋ Meg Pier (2011)

The grant from the state will allow for some preliminary engineering to be complete, Connaughton said, noting they have to determine the type and size of trees and where exactly they will be planted along the scenic byway that runs through Virginia, Maryland and into Pennsylvania. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yes, there was that in her eyes that made them the eyes of Lei-Lei whom I left with a laugh on my lips, the eyes of the Lady Om for forty years my beggar-mate on highway and byway, the eyes of Philippa for whom I was slain on the grass in old France, the eyes of my mother when I was the lad ❋ Unknown (2010)

Highlighting the heroism and absurdity of war, it also illuminates a forgotten byway of African experience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Word of my devotion to Robin will be flying down every lane and byway. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

The fruit and vegetable stand was beside a busy state road and late one September afternoon an interstate bus pulled onto the gravel byway. ❋ John Riley (2011)

It is key to our understanding of the nightmare states that resulted, argues Igor Golomstock, and deserves to be classified as a distinctive artistic genre alongside Modernism, of which it was both byway and heir. ❋ Andrew Stuttaford (2011)

Perhaps the road itself keeps them here; evidence of its former incarnation as a cracked, ill-tended, vertiginous country byway. ❋ Jonathan Sapers (2011)

In "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," a deserted alley brings the hero to a hidden magic shop, and the titular character in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" lives in a ramshackle apartment down a similarly photogenic byway. ❋ Nick Carr (2011)

[Vito] takes [it up] the [Anal Byway] ❋ PauliePoo (2006)

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