by-road

or by·road

[ bahy-rohd ]

noun
  1. a side road.

Origin of by-road

1
First recorded in 1665–75; by- + road

Words Nearby by-road

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How to use by-road in a sentence

  • Close under the Calton Hill there runs a certain narrow avenue, part street, part by-road.

    Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Every river which crossed the steppe would offer to them a tempting by-road leading off into the forests of Siberia or Russia.

  • Down a by-road to his left a stream of haggard country people was pouring from the direction of the Marne.

    The Marne | Edith Wharton
  • Without a word Agatha slowed down, turned up a by-road, and stopped.

    Berry And Co. | Dornford Yates
  • As though to turn the subject, she indicated a buckboard which was coming down an intersecting by-road at crazy speed.

    The Readjustment | Will Irwin

British Dictionary definitions for byroad

byroad

/ (ˈbaɪˌrəʊd) /


noun
  1. a secondary or side road

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