driveway

1. (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.Synonyms: driveUKUS

2. (US) A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security.Examples: "The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area."; "They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full."Synonyms: service road, access roadUS

3. (uncommon) Synonym of droveway.Examples: "The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor."; "Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives."Synonyms: drovewayuncommon