Usually means: Less traveled, secondary road route.
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  1. byway: Merriam-Webster
  2. byway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. byway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. byway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. byway: Vocabulary.com
  6. Byway, byway: Wordnik
  7. byway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. byway: Wiktionary
  9. byway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. byway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. byway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Byway, byway: Dictionary.com
  13. Byway (road): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Byway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. byway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. byway: Rhymezone
  17. Byway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. byway: FreeDictionary.org
  19. byway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. byway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. byway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. byway: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A road or track not following a main route; a secondary or minor road or path.
noun:  A road that is not frequently travelled.
noun:  (by extension) a little-known or arcane field of study or detail.

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