Definitions for byway

byway by·way

Spelling: [bahy-wey]
IPA: /ˈbaɪˌweɪ/

Byway is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in byway (abwyy).

Definitions for byway

noun

  1. a secluded, private, or obscure road.
  2. a subsidiary or obscure field of research, endeavor, etc.

Origin of byway

1300-50; Middle English bywey. See by1 (adj.), way1

Examples for byway

The street might have been a byway in old Pompeii for all the life that moved within it.

The cabin of the Reverdys stood on a byway beyond the Gillespies.

Mr. Bangs rode along every highway and byway, day after day, not missing a trick.

Robbie had turned into a byway that bore the name of King's Arms Lane.

From every farm and byway came men to have a word with the superintendent.

It is a vile road, and I must take the byway through the forest.

It meant that he knew every trail and byway for miles about Temple Camp.

The lawyer turned into a byway which carried him through the Ghetto.

One evening, in a byway where he was watching for her, Margot at last raised her hand.

And presently he slipped out by a byway into the street again, among the savages.

Word Value for byway
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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