What part of speech is byways?

Byways can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. byways is a noun, plural of byway.

Inflections

Noun

What does byways mean?

Definitions

Noun

byway - a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)

Examples of byways

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1. noun Then trembling seized me and, amidst my fear, / what power I know not, but some power unkind / confused my wandering wits, and robbed me of my mind. / For while, the byways following, I left / the beaten track, ah! woe and well away! / my wife Creusa lost me – whether reft / by Fate, or faint or wandering astray, / I know not.
2. noun Holmes’ knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary.
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noun
Then trembling seized me and, amidst my fear, / what power I know not, but some power unkind / confused my wandering wits, and robbed me of my mind. / For while, the byways following, I left / the beaten track, ah! woe and well away! / my wife Creusa lost me – whether reft / by Fate, or faint or wandering astray, / I know not.
Holmes’ knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary.

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