causeway
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- noun
- /ˈkɔːzweɪ/
:
calzada
- The old causeway provided a safe route across the marshy land to the village.
- miles of causeways
She'd give me a ride home across the Causeway back to Mandeville.
- She'd give me a ride home across the Causeway back to Mandeville.
- She give me a ride home across the Causeway back to Amanda Ville.
- And they thought that no one can ever get into to Nocha lawn because we can control the access and flood people or or or trap them on the causeways.
Examples
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You could just make out the line of cars along the causeway across the bay.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I would like to rest my legs a little before crossing that causeway," he said at last.
Fiction book (1998) -
We will cover the causeway and the gate from above.
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We were coming home across the causeway.
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Their escort came after dark to guide them across the causeway to the island and its castle.
Fiction book (1994) -
I woke early, around six in the morning, took the van, and drove over the causeway into Clearwater.
Academic text (1995) -
Ingersoll drove across the Causeway toward New Orleans, thinking about his sister.
Fiction book (1994) -
Holy Island can be reached by a causeway at low tide and is famous as a cradle of Christianity.
Academic text (1999) -
To his right, the harbor dead-ended at the causeway that ran from Paradise to Paradise Neck.
Fiction book (1999) -
Below, a wide dike or causeway a quarter-mile long was lined with houses as well.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
A line of stones to walk across a stream or wet ground
A wooden path that people build across wet or marshy ground to walk on
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word causeway comes from an old word that meant a 'paved road' and is related to French chaussée, which still means a paved road. So a causeway is a raised road built across wet ground or water.