back road
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3.1
- noun
- /bæk roʊd/
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camino secundario
- She always prefers the back road when visiting her grandmother's house for a quieter drive.
So we did that and we were able to get a ton, a ton of shots on back roads, on regular roads.
- So we did that and we were able to get a ton, a ton of shots on back roads, on regular roads.
- So I'm hitting all the back roads right now with every single red light, with every stop sign, with every bump, speed bump.
- It's a car that you can bomb down back roads with and just have a blast.
- Just headed back to school and driving through the back roads of Louisiana made me think of a question for you.
- The state troopers are saying no, the roads are impassable, both the Interstate and the back roads.
- They we have our back roads and we have are dark Bowers and secret places.
Examples
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Take the back roads, don't forget.
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There was no traffic on these back roads at this hour.
Fiction book (2002) -
We're on a back road going three miles per hour.
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We'll cut through the back roads.
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Is there a back road I can take?
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"We could do the back roads, so you could drive, and I could just sit back and relax."
Fiction book (1992) -
I have been traveling these back roads for weeks now.
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You go that way, there's a back road.
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Then he took me down all kinds of back roads, and we ended up at the Freeland farm.
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We have a great mix of paved and uncrowded back roads, rolling hills, flats, and steep hills.
Blog text (25)
Synonyms
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2.6
A small quiet street away from the main roads in a town or city
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7.4
A small quiet road in the countryside that people do not use often
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A small road that turns off a main road
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3.3
A narrow street behind main streets that few people use
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A street that mainly lets people reach nearby homes and shops rather than pass through
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A street that gives direct access to houses with little through traffic
A small quiet side road in the countryside
A small quiet path in the countryside that few people use
Antonyms
How Busy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The primary meaning 'a rural or out-of-the-way road' follows straightforwardly from combining 'back' (at the rear/less prominent) with 'road' (a path for vehicles): a road away from main routes. Although the secondary figurative sense of 'unsophisticated' is metaphorical, the locational/compositional meaning is clear and would be recoverable by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Back road The noun back road comes from small roads at the back of towns—the quiet road people used to avoid busy streets. That's why back road now means 'a small, quiet road' you use to avoid traffic.