alley
alley is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay.
- 2.A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- 3.(Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- 4.The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- 5.A choice taw or marble. Dickens.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- bar
- blind
- block
- blockade
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- choke
- clinch
- close
- closure
- constipation
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- impenetrable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
- impervious
- imporous
- infarction
- invious
- keddah
- obstipation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is alley.
- What is a narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay called?
- What is a passageway between rows of pews in a church called?
- What is any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length called?
- What is the space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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