Byway

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  • noun. A side road.
  • noun. A secondary or arcane field of study.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A by-road; a secluded, private, or obscure way; an out-of-the-way path or course: as, highways and byways.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a road that is not frequently travelled
  • noun. an unpopular or arcane field of study
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)
    • Word Usage
    "We turned down a one-lane byway, driving farther out into the fiercely beautiful land in silence as dusk began to descend."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    road  route  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    flyway  highway  skyway  superhighway  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alley  alleyway  avenue  boulevard  by-roads  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Autobahn  US highway  alley  alleyway  arterial  
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