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drive-shed

drive-shed is the alternative form of driveshed.

Meaning of driveshed

Noun (1)

driveshed (plural drivesheds)

  1. A rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.
    • Near-synonym: carriage house
    Synonyms:
    carriage house

Noun (2)

driveshed (plural drivesheds)

  1. (transportation planning, urban studies) The land area within a defined driving distance or time of a specified location.
    • Though the exact number or distance (sometimes referred to as a walkshed) may be a subject of debate, and may vary depending on the demographics and motivations of the walkers, one thing is abundantly clear: a driveshed is much large than a walkshed. This is not only because cars move much more...2009, Colin Ellard, You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, →ISBN

Forms of drive-shed

pluraldrive-sheds

Questions about drive-shed

What is drive-shed the alternative form of?
Drive-shed is the alternative form of driveshed.

Words near drive-shed in the dictionary

  1. drive-in theatre
  2. drive-in theatres
  3. drive-ins
  4. drive-off
  5. drive-offs
  6. drive-shed
  7. drive-sheds
  8. drive-through
  9. drive-through penalties
  10. drive-through penalty
  11. drive-through restaurant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drive-shed (page history and authors); driveshed (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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