Synonyms for back street

Most common

alley · alleyway · by-way · ten foot · mean streets

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Noun

Antonyms

main street, highway, arterial road

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.

Related words

Other spellings

back-street backstreet

Example sentences

• alley There's a throughway between the bar and the alley.
• alleyway The thief was trapped in a dead-end alleyway.

By length

5 letters

alley²

8 letters

alleyway³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (alley² = 2 syllables).