bywaynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.weɪ/us/ˈbaɪ.weɪ/a small road that not many cars or people travel on
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Roads: rural & suburban
- back road
- beltway
- bypass
- dirt road
- dirt track
- highway
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- relief road
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through route
- throughway
- thruway
- trunk road
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Examples from literature
- He had hoped much from Peter Harris's knowledge of the byways and dens and alleys of Westminster.
- Here we came the next morning after a short time on winding and rather hilly byways.
- I am speaking, of course, of the more traveled highways and country byways.
- I knew the roads and byways foot by foot, and could find my way, if need were, in the night as well as in the day.
- Roads.—Everywhere highways and byways are numerous, and some districts are prodigally supplied with footpaths.