highways and byways
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Collectively, the roads and paths of a given place.
Example Sentences
- "But even if railroads are run across the mountains or the desert reclaimed by scientific methods of investigation or rubber gathered, as it was until recently, in enormous quantities in all the highways and byways of a once impenetrable forest, still all these are done by such methods and at such an expense of human energy and of capital, even of life, as to make them examples not of sheer human conquest but of a conditional conquest."