driveway
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- noun
- /ˈdraɪvˌweɪ/
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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.
- So it's old dirt driveway and it's still there.
- They are usually seen in between cracks in walkways or driveways, really rocky soils.
- I'm walking down my driveway and I see the family dog dead.
- It's just going to end up sitting in our garage or driveway spilling oil, right?
- I'm going to move it either to the bottom of the driveway or on the front porch.
- There's a, there's a water mains right outside your driveway on the main road.
- And he tells tells us he's going to back out of his driveway.
- And this guy's pinned down on my driveway behind my, my, my car.
- And it was, you know, huge driveway, lovely big gardens.
- God, I see a driveway, I see a shovel.
Examples
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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?
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I want to use my driveway once in a while.
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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.
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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?
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Thank you so much for clearing the driveway.
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I'm going to play hockey in the driveway.
Synonyms
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A private road that leads from the street to a house
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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.