Thesaurus:alley

Thesaurus:alley

THESAURUS

alley

English

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

• bunnyrun

• chare (Northern England, UK)

• close (Scotland, UK)

• ennog (Liverpool, UK)

• entry (Midlands, UK)

• gangway (Chicago, US)

• gennel (Northern Ireland, UK)

• ginnel (Yorkshire & Lancashire, UK)

• gunnel

• gitty (East Midlands, UK)

• jennel

• jigger (Liverpool, UK)

• jitty (Midlands, UK)

• lane

• laneway (Canada, Scotland, Ireland)

• passage

• pend (Scotland, UK)

• shut (Shropshire, UK)

• snickelway (Yorkshire, UK)

• snicket (Northern England, UK)

• tenfoot (Yorkshire & East Midlands, UK)

• twitchel (Midlands, UK)

• twitten (Sussex, UK)

• wynd (Scotland, UK)

Hyponyms

• back alley

• back street

• blind alley

Hypernyms

• street    [WS]

Holonyms

• city    [WS]

• town

• settlement    [WS]

Further reading

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