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Usually means: A narrow passage between buildings
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word alley:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. alley: Merriam-Webster
  2. alley: Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary
  3. alley: Wordnik
  4. alley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. alley: Cambridge English Dictionary
  6. alley: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. alley, alley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  8. alley: Collins English Dictionary
  9. alley: Vocabulary.com
  10. alley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. alley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. alley: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  13. Alley, alley: Dictionary.com
  14. alley: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. alley: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  16. ALLEY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. alley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. alley: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  19. alley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. alley: Oxford English Dictionary

General (historical) (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. alley (1755), alley (1773): Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
  2. alley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  3. alley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  4. Alley: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  5. ALLEY: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

User-edited (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alley: Wiktionary
  2. alley: Wiktionary
  3. Alley (surname), Alley (disambiguation), Alley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Alley: Urban Dictionary
  5. alley: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alley, alley, alley, alley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Alley: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Alley: Tennis Glossary
  3. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  6. Alley: Sports Definitions
  7. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF DAIRY TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See alleys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
noun:  (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
noun:  (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
noun:  (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
noun:  (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
noun:  A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
noun:  A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
noun:  The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
noun:  (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
noun:  A marble (small ball used in games).
noun:  (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A female given name.

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