Thesaurus:alley

Thesaurus

alley

English

Noun

Sense: a narrow street or passageway

Detail: Often between other elements of a settlement. E.g. between buildings or between walls/hedges/etc.

Synonyms

• alley
• alleyway
• backs (Swindon, UK)
• bunnyrun
• chare (Northern England, UK)
• chore (Northern England, UK)
• close (Scotland, UK)
• ennog (Liverpool, UK)
• entry (Midlands, UK)
• fold (Wolverhampton, UK)
• gangway (Chicago, US)
• gant (Braintree, Essex, UK)
• gennel (Sheffield, UK)
• ginnel (Yorkshire & Lancashire, UK)
• gunnel
• gitty (Midlands, UK)
• gully (Birmingham, UK)
• gullyway (Black Country, UK)
• jennel
• jigger (Liverpool, UK)
• jitty (Midlands, UK)
• lane
• laneway (Canada, Scotland, Ireland)
• loke (Norfolk, UK)
• passage
• pend (Scotland, UK)
• rabbit run
• shut (Shropshire, UK)
• snickelway (Yorkshire, UK)
• snicket (Northern England, UK)
• tenfoot (Yorkshire & East Midlands, UK)
• twitchel (Midlands, UK)
• twitten (Sussex, UK)
• wynd (Scotland, UK)
• vennel (Scotland, UK)

Hyponyms

• back alley
• back street
• blind alley

Hypernyms

• street    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• city    [⇒ thesaurus]
• town
• settlement    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “189. abode” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “alley” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.