ring road
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3.2
- noun
- /rɪŋ roʊd/
- UK
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autopista de circunvalación
- With the construction of ring roads, suburban industrial parks, shopping centers, university campuses, and the like, the need for properly planned, modestly priced tract housing became evident.
- the outer ring road
- the ring road around the city
Examples
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The city's new ring road helps to reduce traffic congestion in the downtown area.
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I have used all three of the Moscow airports at one time or another and am very appreciative of the completion of the capital's outer ring road for some of the inter-terminal rides.
Academic text (2002) -
You drive down to the ring road near the fire station, okay?
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Eventually, we came to Cambridge, negotiated the ring road, and arrived at the science park, serene under shining snow.
Fiction book (1999) -
06:20 The traffic light to cross the inner-city ring road takes far too long to turn green.
Blog text (11) -
This exotic and splendid building now sits off London's North Circular ring road, near a gas station and a retail park.
Academic text (2003) -
We had crossed the ring road by now, and in the darkness, the ten floors of the Baltika loomed on our left.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Moscow metropolitan region has grown tremendously since the early 1990s, with much of the new economic activity and urban land development clustered along outer ring roads distant from the urban core.
Academic text (2006) -
Located along the city's ring road, Zuidpark focuses (more than other urban farms) on activities, workshops, and education, as well as on organizing special dinners with a view.
Blog text (4) -
As usual, driving through Kuwait City, he had tried to avoid the major roads where roadblocks were likely to be set up, but crossing any of the six Ring Roads that envelop Kuwait City in a series of concentric bands could only be done at a major junction.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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4.5
A road that goes around a city to let drivers avoid the center
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3.8
Road built around a town or city to let traffic avoid its centre
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A road that goes around a city so drivers avoid downtown traffic
A road that goes around a town or city to carry traffic past it
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a road that circles a city' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ring' (circular formation) with 'road' (a constructed way for vehicles). This straightforward noun+noun composition and the widespread existence of equivalent concepts in other languages make the sense immediately inferable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Ring road comes from the picture of a road that makes a ring around a town like a circle. Because it circles the city, people use it to 'avoid' the busy centre, so it means a road that goes around a city.