Alley: Definition and part of speech

Alley

  1. n. A choice taw or marble.
  2. n. A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
  3. n. A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
  4. n. A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
  5. n. Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
  6. n. The space between two rows of compositors’ stands in a printing office.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.