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driveway

driveway

285 1.0
A short private road from the street to a house or garage where cars park
  • noun
  • /ˈdraɪvˌweɪ/
translation icon : entrada (de vehículos)
  • After a long day, I finally arrived home and turned into the driveway.
  • pull into the driveway
  • parking on the driveway
  • long driveway

So it's old dirt driveway and it's still there.

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Examples

  • Fifteen minutes later, Lester pulled up in the driveway in his Buick.

    Academic text (2010)
  • An hour later, Alice pulled into her mother's driveway, looking for John's car, but not finding it there.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Can I leave it in your driveway over night?

  • I want to use my driveway once in a while.

  • I left the car running in the driveway when I went to his house that first time.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • And it was, you know, huge driveway, lovely big gardens.

  • When we pulled into the driveway, my dad was under the hood of our second car.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Hey, Dad, what's that car doing in our driveway?

  • Thank you so much for clearing the driveway.

  • I'm going to play hockey in the driveway.

Synonyms

drive
vsdriveway
156 2.8

A private road that leads from the street to a house

refers specifically to the short path from street to a house for parking

How Long

private road
3 3.3
lane
405 1.0
driveway
285 1.0
path
969 1.0

Surface Forms

driveway singular
driveways plural

Morphology

driveway = drive + way (transparent) = drive + way

The compound literally denotes a 'way' used for 'driving'; the meaning is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

The word driveway is simply drive (to move a car) plus way ('road' or 'path'), so it literally means the 'road you drive on' to reach a house. That's why a driveway is the short road from the street to your house or garage where vehicles can be parked.