Road synonyms
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A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
(US, nonstandard) Alternative form of throughway.
A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.
A strip prepared for travel
The definition of a boulevard is a wide street often lined with trees.
A road; specif., that part of a road traveled on by vehicles
byway
A road or path other than the main one, esp. one not used very much; side road; bypath
alleyway
An alley between buildings
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 visionary plan or project
A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden
Such a public way considered apart from the sidewalks:
A way of approach to something
highroad
Alternative spelling of high road.
(--- Sports) The ball or puck as it is propelled:
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 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 crossroads (place where one road crosses another)
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 passage, roadway, or bridge that crosses above another roadway or thoroughfare.
A paved highway.
A divided highway for through traffic, with full or partial control of access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections
divided-highway
(US) A dual carriageway
trackway
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
post road
A road over which the post, or mail, is or formerly was carried
secondary road
A strip prepared for travel
shunpike
A secondary road used to avoid turnpikes and expressways
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
(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.
agger
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.
A road that passes around something, such as a residential area
A road less frequented than a highway; a byway.
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
A way, path, or channel of movement
A roundabout way; deviation from a direct way
esplanade
A flat open stretch of pavement or grass, especially one designed as a promenade along a shore.
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.
A roller coaster, Ferris wheel, or other thing to ride, as at an amusement park
roadstead
A sheltered offshore anchorage area for ships.
(Chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
(Railways) The permanent way; the rails.
tramroad
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
move (related)
(Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving, or a player's turn to move
open (related)
An unobstructed area of land or water:
The act or technique of laying pavement.
A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.
market road
A strip prepared for travel
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