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Driveways

[drahyv-wey] Origin

drive·way

[drahyv-wey]
noun
1.
a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
2.
any road for driving on.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; drive + way
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Driveways is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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driveway
1884 in main modern sense "private road from a public road to a private house," from drive + way.
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