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backage

/ˈbæ.kɪd͡ʒ/

backage noun: the rear part of a property or building that faces away from the main artery.

Noun

backage (countable and uncountable, plural backages)

  1. The rear part of a property or building that faces away from the main artery.
    • {{|author= Steve Szigethy|passage=One suburban design flaw discussed far less often than the cul-de-sac or the strip mall is the “backage” road – a road that provides vehicular access to the rear of properties that otherwise have “frontage” along an arterial road. The backage road optimizes...

Forms of backage

pluralbackages

Origin of backage

From back + -age.

Words formed from backage

  • backage road

Questions about backage

What does backage mean?
Backage means the rear part of a property or building that faces away from the main artery.
What part of speech is backage?
Backage is a noun.
How do you pronounce backage?
Backage is pronounced /ˈbæ.kɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of backage?
The plural of backage is backages.

Words near backage in the dictionary

  1. backacters
  2. backaction
  3. backactions
  4. backactor
  5. backactors
  6. backage
  7. backake
  8. backal
  9. backalong
  10. backannotation
  11. backarapper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: backage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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