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Plural of alleyway

regular plural

The plural of alleyway is alleyways.

Forms of alleyway

Singularalleyway /ˈæ.li.weɪ/
Pluralalleyways /ˈæ.li.weɪz/
Countablecountable

Alleyways in a sentence

  • The gaslit streets of Victorian London felt much safer than the dark alleyways to either side.From the entry gaslit
  • The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways.2003, Loren W. Cooper, A Slow and Silent Stream, page 88. From the entry crazyquilt
  • He led me along a dog-legging route through the fifteenth-century alleyways that were the lacework holding old Beijing together.2016, Madeleine O’Dea, “Beijing 1986”, in The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance and the Making of Modern China, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen &…. From the entry hutong
  • In Beijing, near the Forbidden City, a winding maze of hutongs, or narrow alleyways, is home to one of the world’s most exotic markets.2007 October 16, Brice J. Bay, “Thanks, but I’ll have the bat on a stick instead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hutong
  • In the San Diego Convention Center, hanging high above the makeshift alleyways of merchandise vendors, more than 40 pairs of anime-style breasts looked down upon me.2022 November 2, Steffi Cao, “Big Mommy Milkers Are A Shield Against Online Harassment, Vtubers Say”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the…. From the entry milker

Meaning of alleyway

  1. noun A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings.
  2. noun A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship.

Full definition of alleyway

Questions about the plural of alleyway

What is the plural of alleyway?
The plural of alleyway is alleyways.
Is alleyway countable?
Alleyway is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alleyway (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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