Road synonyms
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A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
The definition of a boulevard is a wide street often lined with trees.
(US, nonstandard) Alternative form of throughway.
A road; specif., that part of a road traveled on by vehicles
A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.
A strip prepared for travel
A way of approach to something
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
A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
(Mostly local usage) The expressway that surrounds another city.
A transportation charge, as for a bus.
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.
A road or path other than the main one, esp. one not used very much; side road; bypath
An alley between buildings
A crossroads (place where one road crosses another)
divided-highway
(US) A dual carriageway
A visionary plan or project
(Sussex) the South Downs Way
A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden
A way, path, or channel of movement
A roundabout way; deviation from a direct way
A person or thing that feeds
A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate:
The definition of a journey is a trip from one place to another.
A hill with a pointed summit.
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.
roadstead
A sheltered offshore anchorage area for ships.
(Chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
(Railways) The permanent way; the rails.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(--- Sports) The ball or puck as it is propelled:
A highway without toll charges
open (related)
An unobstructed area of land or water:
raod (related)
main-road (related)
r&d (related)
street (related)
motorway (related)
bridle-path (related)
whitestone (related)
Road/The (related)
footpath (related)
sandhills (related)
tollgate (related)
highroad
Alternative spelling of high road.
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 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 divided highway for through traffic, with full or partial control of access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections
A path made by repeated use of the same land.
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
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.
Autobahn (German)
A strip prepared for travel
autostrada (Italian)
A strip prepared for travel
A thing that checks motion, as a brake on the wheel of a carriage
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.
A road that passes around something, such as a residential area
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
A passage, roadway, or bridge that crosses above another roadway or thoroughfare.
post road
A road over which the post, or mail, is or formerly was carried
A road less frequented than a highway; a byway.
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