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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
byway
noun
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▪ A highway for this purpose is defined as including footpaths, bridleways and byways.
▪ Anyone with taste for late-Romantic byways should enjoy this piece, though the 23-minute first movement is decidedly long for its material.
▪ Drop off at Lower Bridge Street, a gem of an old-fashioned byway, and browse among fashionable shops and restaurants.
▪ He has mastered the rules, the byways and folkways of life in an entirely different universe.
▪ One of them was Moon-Watcher; once again he felt inquisitive tendrils creeping down the unused byways of his brain.
▪ This smallish grid of brick byways features pale Easteregg-colored houses old as anything in town.
▪ To that end, Fabia left her hotel and, an inveterate walker, explored the highways and byways of Mariánské Láznë.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Byway

Byway \By"way`\, n. A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. `` Take no byways.''
--Herbert.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
byway

mid-14c., from by + way (n.).

Wiktionary
byway

alt. 1 a road that is not frequently travelled 2 (context by extension English) an unpopular or arcane field of study n. 1 a road that is not frequently travelled 2 (context by extension English) an unpopular or arcane field of study

WordNet
byway

n. a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn: bypath, byroad]

Wikipedia
Byway

A byway is a less-traveled side road, as in:

  • Byway (road), a minor secondary or tertiary road in the UK
  • National Scenic Byway, a road recognized by the United States Department of Transportation for its historical qualities
Byway (road)

A byway in the United Kingdom is a track, often rural, which is too minor to be called a road. These routes are often unsurfaced, typically having the appearance of ' green lanes'. Despite this, it is legal (but may not be physically possible) to drive any type of vehicle along certain byways, the same as any ordinary tarmac road.

In 2000 the legal term 'restricted byway' was introduced to cover rights of way along which it is legal to travel by any mode (including on foot, bicycle, horse-drawn carriage etc.) but excluding 'mechanically propelled vehicles'.

Usage examples of "byway".

Till his deathday he held the Castle of the Scaur, and cleansed the Wood Perilous of all strong-thieves and reivers, so that no high-street of a good town was safer than its glades and its byways.

Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

Then Domini set out towards the garden, avoiding the village street, and taking a byway which skirted the desert.

And while the assortment of Masterson heirlooms the current curator has so lovingly and painstakingly collected is impressive, there is only one item unique to Masterson Manor, one item which has drawn the museologist along the twisted lanes and remote byways that lead to Trecombe: The Masterson Bed.

She avoided the neighbourhood in which she had formerly lived, and after long search discovered what she wanted in a woful byway near Old Street.

The burial-ground by which he had paused was as little restful to the eye as are most of those discoverable in the byways of London.

In the highways and byways of Clerkenwell there was a thronging of released toilers, of young and old, of male and female.

In the recesses of dim byways, where sunshine and free air are forgotten things, where families herd together in dear-rented garrets and cellars, craftsmen are for ever handling jewellery, shaping bright ornaments for the necks and arms of such as are born to the joy of life.

A little light went a long way to guide him through the stinking byways under the city.

He then led New York State troopers and Nassau County police on a high-speed, twenty-minute chase through the highways and byways of Long Island.

Morbidity makes sorcerers lose their way and become trapped in the intricate, dark byways of the unknown.

Malcolm, and travelling by byways across the hills they crossed the Cheviots a few miles south of Carter Fell, and then rode down the wild valleys to Castletown and thence to Canobie of the Esk.

One without secret byways, patrolled by clone guardians tested over centuries, genetically primed for vigilance.

We visited churches, and we visited museums and courtyards and byways and alleyways.

From their places of concealment in dark byways and dank vents, fanged orifices and greedy claws shivered forth to drag the wounded away.