Thesaurus:alley
English
Noun
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
- backs (Swindon, UK)
- bunnyrun
- chare (Northern England, UK)
- chore (Northern England, UK)
- close (Scotland, UK)
- ennog (Liverpool, UK)
- entry (Midlands, UK)
- fold (Wolverhampton, UK)
- gangway (Chicago, US)
- gant (Braintree, Essex, UK)
- gennel (Sheffield, UK)
- ginnel (Yorkshire & Lancashire, UK)
- gunnel
- gitty (Midlands, UK)
- gully (Birmingham, UK)
- gullyway (Black Country, UK)
- hocket
- jennel
- jigger (Liverpool, UK)
- jitty (Midlands, UK)
- lane
- laneway (Canada, Scotland, Ireland)
- loke (Norfolk, UK)
- passage
- pend (Scotland, UK)
- rabbit run
- shut (Shropshire, UK)
- snickelway (Yorkshire, UK)
- snicket (Northern England, UK)
- tenfoot (Yorkshire & East Midlands, UK)
- twitchel (Midlands, UK)
- twitten (Sussex, UK)
- wynd (Scotland, UK)
- vennel (Scotland, UK)
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Further reading
- “189. abode” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “alley” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.