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)
  • hocket
  • 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
Hypernyms
Holonyms

Further reading

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