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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1. Terrisa Bukovinac:

   Big Abortion has ensured that abortion remains unregulated, making in-clinic abortions indistinguishable from so-called ‘back alley’ abortions, abortion-vulnerable communities need economic and racial justice to address the root cause of abortion and the abysmal maternal mortality rate, especially for Black women, not the option to terminate the lives of our offspring!

2. Michael Pfleger:

   What happened to Tyshawn Lee took us to a new low, this wasn't a drive-by. This was not a spray of bullets. A baby was executed. A baby was assassinated right behind us in this alley.

3. Miranda Lambert:

   Reese texted me and told me about the movie and wanted me to write something or sing or both. I got inspired, it was a bit of a Thelma and Louise theme and that's totally up my alley. It is really so fun to be part of it.

4. Rachel Gordon:

   We've gotten many, many calls from people who wanted it done in their alley or on their buildings, some people are saying it's just a gimmick, but other people hope it will combat some of the smelly areas of San Francisco that have been saturated with urine.

5. Gunther Krichbaum:

   We are talking with Britain and I love Britain and want to keep talking to them, But when the rhetoric is driving you at 100 miles per hour up a blind alley, you have to realize that you won't be able to turn round at the end of the blind alley.