road
- noun
- /roʊd/
- When you get to the refinery, turn off the highway onto the dirt road.
- toll road
- road signs
- road traffic
My wing wound up beside the road, left for dead.
- My wing wound up beside the road, left for dead.
- Imagine you driving down the road and you see a lady, right?
- I walk the same road to work each Monday.
- Don't break the road laws, follow the rules.
- You standing on the side of the road, your shit is raw.
Examples
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Please be careful when crossing the road near the school.
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The houses on this side of the road are odd.
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I was walking down the road and I saw...
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I walk the same road to work each Monday.
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So everyone is using our road to get to the main road.
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Today we are going on a road trip to Utrecht.
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If you're looking for gas, you could drive up the road about two miles.
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There's a coffee shop up on the main road, up to the left.
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I'd pass automobiles on the road that had broken down with whole families in them.
Academic text (2011) -
"We have 40 to 50 trucks on the road every day," says Reiter.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
The part of a road where cars and buses drive
A big road that carries most traffic and connects towns
A main road that people use to travel between places
A path for bicycles and other vehicles with wheels
Idioms
- Literature
A sudden big change in what someone believes or values that changes their life
- Informal
To start a journey into the unknown that brings adventure and personal change
Compounds
A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options
A road owned by a person or company that leads to a house and is not for public use
A street that mainly lets people reach nearby homes and shops rather than pass through
- Informal
A choice that few people make because it is different from what most people do
- Jargon
A series of presentations in different cities to meet people who might invest
- Specialized
A major road that carries a lot of traffic and connects important parts of a city
- Archaic
A person who stops and robs travelers on the road in the Old West, often from stagecoaches
- Specialized
A heavy vehicle with wide smooth drums that flattens and hardens road surfaces
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Road comes from an old English word rād meaning 'ride' or 'journey', the same root as ride. So a road is a way made for riding or travel, which is why we use it for the wide, hard surface that vehicles and people travel on.