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backway

backway noun: a back alley.

Noun

backway (plural backways)

  1. A back alley.
    • Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

Forms of backway

pluralbackways

Origin of backway

From back + way.

Questions about backway

What does backway mean?
Backway means a back alley.
What part of speech is backway?
Backway is a noun.
What is the plural of backway?
The plural of backway is backways.

Words near backway in the dictionary

  1. backwatered
  2. backwatering
  3. backwaterish
  4. backwaters
  5. backwatery
  6. backway
  7. backways
  8. backweight
  9. backweights
  10. Backwell
  11. backwind

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