Road synonyms

highway

A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

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roadway

A road; specif., that part of a road traveled on by vehicles

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pike

A hill with a pointed summit.

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route

A road or path; often specifically a highway.

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lane

A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.

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street (related)

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boulevard

The definition of a boulevard is a wide street often lined with trees.

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alley

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

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Autobahn (German)

A strip prepared for travel

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autostrada (Italian)

A strip prepared for travel

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path

A walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden

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passage

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.

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pavement

(Chiefly UK) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.

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speedway

(Chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.

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motorway (related)

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journey

The definition of a journey is a trip from one place to another.

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drive

(--- Sports) The ball or puck as it is propelled:

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whitestone (related)

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course

A way, path, or channel of movement

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detour

A roundabout way; deviation from a direct way

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feeder

A person or thing that feeds

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impasse

A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate:

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portage

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.

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railroad

(Figuratively) A procedure conducted or bullied in haste without due consideration.

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turnpike

A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.

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open (related)

(with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.

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main-road (related)

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r&d (related)

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bridle-path (related)

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Road/The (related)

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footpath (related)

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sandhills (related)

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tollgate (related)

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parkway

A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.

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state highway

A strip prepared for travel

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bypass

A road that passes around something, such as a residential area

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avenue

A way of approach to something

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byway

A road or path other than the main one, esp. one not used very much; side road; bypath

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expressway

A divided highway for through traffic, with full or partial control of access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections

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trace

A visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing.

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fare

A transportation charge, as for a bus.

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highroad

Alternative spelling of high road.

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terrace

A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.

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artery

Any one of the system of thick-walled blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

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viaduct

A series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads.

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trail

A mark, footprint, scent, etc. left by a person, animal, or thing that has passed

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secondary road

A strip prepared for travel

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shunpike

A secondary road used to avoid turnpikes and expressways

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market road

A strip prepared for travel

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national highway

A strip prepared for travel

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interstate

The definition of an interstate is one highway in a network of highways that connect the 48 connected United States.

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drag

A thing that checks motion, as a brake on the wheel of a carriage

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main-drag

Used other than as an idiom: see main,"Ž drag.

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way

(Sussex) the South Downs Way

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plan (related)

A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.

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viatical

Of or pertaining to a journey; viatic

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access-road

A road that affords access into and out of an area.

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agger

A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.

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anchorage

(Nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge..

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back-road

A secondary road, a little used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as alternate to main roads.

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beltway

(Mostly local usage) The expressway that surrounds another city.

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career

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

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concourse

An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.

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corduroy-road

A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.

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esplanade

A flat open stretch of pavement or grass, especially one designed as a promenade along a shore.

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ride

A roller coaster, Ferris wheel, or other thing to ride, as at an amusement park

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move (related)

(Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving, or a player's turn to move

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railway

A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.

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roadstead

A sheltered offshore anchorage area for ships.

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track

(Railways) The permanent way; the rails.

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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.

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freeway

A highway without toll charges

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superhighway

Expressway

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thoroughfare

A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

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thruway

(US, nonstandard) Alternative form of throughway.