frontage road
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈfrʌntɪdʒ roʊd/
- US
:
carretera lateral
- The new gas station was built on the frontage road next to the highway for easy access to travelers.
- northbound frontage road
- frontage road signal
- east along the frontage road
Examples
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Instead, bus riders are dropped on the frontage road of I-40.
Blog text (28) -
You have to turn around—or back down—go half a mile up the frontage road to a gate—then up the service road.
Fiction book (2001) -
"We like being on this side, but on the east side of the frontage road, the traffic is higher.
Blog text (22) -
Once we turned on the frontage road, it helped, and the wind shifted.
Blog text (19) -
When I saw the video, my first thought was, 'While it may not be appropriate, people should exercise common sense before they get off a bus in the middle of the frontage road.'
Blog text (28) -
I don't know what person would think they should get off on a frontage road in a wheelchair and ride in traffic.
Blog text (28) -
Spotted him, on the frontage road at mile 3-6-0.
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For now, it's business as usual at the Choices campus, which is tucked in the woods off of an I-95 frontage road in Florence.
Blog text (5) -
Half the time, when you wanted frontage road access to a business, you had to move the signs to get in because indifferent Walsh construction workers kept blocking the access routes.
Blog text (31) -
As we drove along the frontage road, we noticed many local shops and restaurants lining the way.
Synonyms
5
3.2
A small road that runs next to a main road and gives access to homes and shops
3
1.6
A street that mainly lets people reach nearby homes and shops rather than pass through
How Major
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'frontage' (the part of a property facing a street) + 'road' (a constructed way), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it as a road that provides frontage/access alongside a main road. This is a literal, compositional construction (similar to 'service/access road' in other languages), making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Frontage road comes from the words frontage and road, where frontage means the land at the 'front' of a building and road means a street. So, imagine a small street running beside a highway in front of shops—because it sits at the 'front' of properties and gives direct access, the name now means a local road that runs beside a main road and serves local traffic.