alleyway has definitions from the fields of transportation,geography
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[ noun ] (transportation,geography) a narrow street with walls on both sides

Synonyms

alley back_street

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences , where one man 's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy .

Related terms

street thoroughfare

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