drivewayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/

名詞

driveway (plural driveways)

1. (UK, US) A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
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.
   • 1988 April, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics‎, page 127:

     The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.

   • 2020 October 28, Franco La Monica, Catch 44‎, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:

     They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.

3. (uncommon) Synonym of droveway
   • 1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest”, in Environmental Assessment for the North Powder Wild and Scenic River Management Plan‎, US Department of Agriculture, page 12:

     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.

   • 2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest‎, retrieved 2023-09-13:

     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.

同意語

• (short private road that leads to a house or garage): drive (UK)
• (road that enters or circulates through a defined area): service road, access road

派生語

• driveway doesn't go all the way to the road, someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
• driveway moment
• shared driveway

参考

• drive away