roadway
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈroʊdˌweɪ/
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calzada
- The occasional sound of car tires slapping along a distant roadway provided an erratic backbeat.
- roadway traffic
- vehicles on the roadway
- roadway surface
He drove over yards and through the fence and at no point was he on the roadway.
- He drove over yards and through the fence and at no point was he on the roadway.
- Right now, the only way in and out of Ukraine is through roadways that are in the mountains and old defunct railways.
- You can't just create huge spaces and to make better use of the roadways and the walkways and and the retail space.
- This is how they're going to trick the regulators to be OK with self driving cars on all roadways in the future.
- We really only create large scale connections over long time scales, but we can alter the traffic on the roadways really easily.
- For many people, it's this fork in the roadway.
Examples
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We had to detour our route because the main roadway was closed for repairs.
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The roadway has been sealed.
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OFFICER: Are you aware of the speed limit on this roadway?
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Multiple reports of cracking on roadway.
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The following day, they reached a broad roadway leading west into the foothills and turned onto it.
Fiction book (1991) -
To determine traffic volumes for individual roadway segments, an assessment that identifies the number of vehicles is required.
Academic text (2002) -
A county bridge about 1-1/2 miles downstream washed out, and the roadway was severely damaged.
Academic text (2000) -
The resulting pileup virtually closes the border, generating roadway chaos throughout metropolitan Windsor and Detroit.
Academic text (2000) -
The construction crew is repairing the roadway to ensure a smoother ride for vehicles.
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Traffic flowed steadily on the newly paved roadway, which made the commute easier.
Synonyms
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1.0
A wide hard surface for cars and people to travel between places
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1.0
A hard road surface used by cars
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5.1
A main road that people use to travel between places
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3.0
The top layer of a road that vehicles drive on
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5.9
A part of a road for cars or buses going in one direction, often divided into lanes
A path for bicycles and other vehicles with wheels
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roadway is made of two simple parts, road and way. Road comes from an old English word meaning 'to ride', like the modern word ride, and way means 'path', so roadway is literally a 'path for riding' and now means the part of a road where vehicles travel.