Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

droveway

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: drove-way
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.

Example Sentences

"In the first […], a series of droveways ran north from the coastal marshes, across lighter soils, as far as the edge of the claylands that were open pasture, while a further series of droveways ran from a series of upland commons across the gravel hills to the northern edge of the clayland pastures: […]"

Etymology

From drove + way.

Inflected Forms

droveways (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

cowpath

Synonyms

drove drove road drovers' road drovers' way driftway driveway

Questions

What does droveway mean?: A road or track along which livestock are (or historically were) regularly driven.
Where does droveway come from?: From drove + way.

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