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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 out
  2. drive sale
  3. drive sales
  4. drive shaft
  5. drive shafts
  6. drive shed
  7. drive sheds
  8. drive someone crazy
  9. drive someone insane
  10. drive someone mad
  11. drive someone nuts

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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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