DCHP-3

driveway

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a scenic highway, especially a city thoroughfare, the sides of which are landscaped and planted with trees and flowers.

Quotations

1909
. . . the big “County Council” in Queen’s Park is considering the advisability of spending three hundred thousand dollars in building a driveway and boulevard along the Canadian side of the Niagara River.
1958
What Ottawa needs most sorely though is not more trees, parks and driveways as handouts from the taxpayers of Canada, but certain civilizing amenities which its own inhabitants, particularly the city officials and businessmen, can supply.
2n.

a private way by the side of a house, often giving access to a garage; a side drive.

Quotations

1955
As a car was driving along the highway, a dog suddenly came out of a driveway and in order to avoid killing the dog, he had to ditch his car and damaged it quite badly.
1966
Friday . . . [I] shovelled gravel to make a new driveway.
3n.

a lane leading from a road to a house.

Quotations

1939
. . . Ralph Patterson appeared on the driveway behind the barn.
1963
But I saw farmers shovelling their driveways. . . .