back street

Questions about back street

What is another word for back street?

It depends which back street you mean. In the sense “a narrow street with walls on both sides”, the synonyms are alley, alleyway. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of back street?

WordNet records no antonym for back street. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for back street come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of back street

• Full entry for back streetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for back streetWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.