driveway

English

Etymology

drive +‎ way

Noun

driveway (plural driveways)

1. (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
2. (US) A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security.
   • 1988 April, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics‎^[1], page 127:

     The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.

   • 2020 October 28, Franco La Monica, Catch 44‎^[2], Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:

     They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.

4. (uncommon) Synonym of droveway
   • 1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest”, in Environmental Assessment for the North Powder Wild and Scenic River Management Plan‎^[3], US Department of Agriculture, page 12:

     The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor.

   • 2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest‎^[4], retrieved 2023-09-13:

     Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives.

Synonyms

• (short private road that leads to a house or garage): drive (UK)
• (road that enters or circulates through a defined area): service road, access road

Derived terms

• driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
• driveway moment
• shared driveway

Translations

short private road that leads to a house or garage

• Catalan: camí d'accés m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車道／车道 (zh) (chēdào), 專用支路／专用支路 (zhuānyòngzhīlù)

• Czech: příjezdová cesta f
• Danish: indkørsel (da) c
• Dutch: oprit (nl), inrit (nl)
• Finnish: pihatie, yksityinen ajotie
• French: allée (fr)
• German: Einfahrt (de) f (to small building), Auffahrt (de) f (to large building), Zufahrt (de) f
• Irish: cabhsán m
• Japanese: 私道 (ja) (しどう, shidō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppkjørsel m or f

• Polish: podjazd do domu m
• Russian: подъездна́я доро́жка f (podʺjezdnája doróžka), прое́зд (ru) m (projézd)
• Spanish: entrada (para coches) f
• Swedish: infart (sv) c, uppfart (sv) c
• Turkish: garaj yolu

See also

• drive away