privada

/pɾiˈbada/ · B1 · noun · f

cul-de-sac

🚧 privada = private street: a road closed off, so there is no way through

Short for calle privada, private street. In Mexican Spanish it names a dead-end residential lane: because it is private, through traffic has no exit. Same Latin root as English private, privatus, set apart.

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