road
nounEtymology
From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway). The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late — Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar — and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway (“a way for riding on”) as saying way twice, in other words as a tautological compound.
Definitions
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot…
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.
- And the road doesn't end / It's a long, long road and we follow it again and again / And the road don't pretend
Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- We travelled to the seaside by road.
A physical way or route.
- He stirred up his hair with his sprightliest expression, glanced at the little figure again, said ‘Good evening, ma ‘am; don’t come down, Mrs Affery, I know the road to the door,’ and steamed out.
- Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty.
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A path chosen, as in life or career.
- the road to happiness; the road to success.
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
- Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
An underground tunnel in a mine.
A railroad.
A single railroad track (railway track).
The act of riding on horseback.
A hostile ride against a particular area
A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor
A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- Antonio: Sweet lady, you have given me life and living; / For here I read for certain that my ships / Are safely come to road.
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade, than any thing else […].
A journey, or stage of a journey.
- At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester; / Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, / With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him; […]
A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
At the venue of the opposing team or competitor
At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
Of or pertaining to a road bike.
- road tires
- road groupset
The neighborhood
- synonymfrog
- synonymfrog and toad
- synonymmarg
- synonymroad
- synonymstreet
- neighborcurb
- neighborgutter
- neighborkerb
- neighborroadside
- neighborroad sign
- neighborstreet sign
- neighbortraffic light
- neighborwayside
- neighbor:Category:Roads
- neighborinfrastructure
- neighborway
- neighboraccess road
Derived
2+1 road, 2-1 road, Abu Road, access road, all roads lead to Mecca, all roads lead to Rome, all roads lead to Sydney, an old dog for a hard road, antiroad, any road, any road up, A road, A-road, arterial road, asphalt road, back road, Basque Roads, Berkeley Road, bikeroad, B road, Builth Road, bump in the road, bump on the road, Burma Road, burn up the road, byroad, cart road, cartroad, Cemmaes Road, Clarbeston Road, collector road, come down the road, concession road, corduroy road, corpse road, country road, C road, crossroad, cross road, crossroads · +293 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at road. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at road. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at road
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA