Road synonyms
rōd
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A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
A road; specif., that part of a road traveled on by vehicles
A hill with a pointed summit.
A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
street (related)
The definition of a boulevard is a wide street often lined with trees.
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A narrow street or walk, specif., a lane behind or alongside a row of buildings or between two rows of buildings that face on adjacent streets
Autobahn (German)
A strip prepared for travel
autostrada (Italian)
A strip prepared for travel
A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden
Passage is moving through something, being granted permission to move through something or an enclosed area that you must move through to get to somewhere else.
(Chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
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motorway (related)
The definition of a journey is a trip from one place to another.
(--- Sports) The ball or puck as it is propelled:
whitestone (related)
A way, path, or channel of movement
A roundabout way; deviation from a direct way
A person or thing that feeds
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A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate:
Portage is defined as the act of carrying or transporting, or payment for carrying, or carrying small boats over land between two bodies of water.
open (related)
(with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
main-road (related)
r&d (related)
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bridle-path (related)
Road/The (related)
footpath (related)
sandhills (related)
tollgate (related)
A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.
A strip prepared for travel
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A road that passes around something, such as a residential area
A way of approach to something
A road or path other than the main one, esp. one not used very much; side road; bypath
A divided highway for through traffic, with full or partial control of access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections
A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
A transportation charge, as for a bus.
highroad
Alternative spelling of high road.
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A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
Any one of the system of thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
A series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads.
A mark, footprint, scent, etc. left by a person, animal, or thing that has passed
secondary road
A strip prepared for travel
shunpike
A secondary road used to avoid turnpikes and expressways
market road
A strip prepared for travel
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national highway
A strip prepared for travel
The definition of an interstate is one highway in a network of highways that connect the 48 connected United States.
A thing that checks motion, as a brake on the wheel of a carriage
(Sussex) the South Downs Way
plan (related)
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
A road that affords access into and out of an area.
A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
(Mostly local usage) The expressway that surrounds another city.
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
A flat open stretch of pavement or grass, especially one designed as a promenade along a shore.
A roller coaster, Ferris wheel, or other thing to ride, as at an amusement park
move (related)
(Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving, or a player's turn to move
roadstead
A sheltered offshore anchorage area for ships.
(Railways) The permanent way; the rails.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
A highway without toll charges
(US, nonstandard) Alternative form of throughway.
An alley between buildings
A crossroads (place where one road crosses another)
A passage, roadway, or bridge that crosses above another roadway or thoroughfare.
divided-highway
(US) A dual carriageway
post road
A road over which the post, or mail, is or formerly was carried
A visionary plan or project
A road less frequented than a highway; a byway.
raod (related)
A passage underneath something, especially a section of road that passes under another road or a railroad.
A paved highway.
The act or technique of laying pavement.
A path made by repeated use of the same land.
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