# road
## English
### Alternative forms

* rade (obsolete)

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rōd, IPA: /ɹəʊd/
** Audio (UK); “a road”:(file)
** Audio (London):(file)
* (General American) enPR: rōd, IPA: /ɹoʊd/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Scotland) IPA: /rod/
* Homophones: Rhode, rode (general), rowed (except Scotland)
* Rhymes: -əʊd

### Noun

road (plural roads)
* 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. [from 16th c.]
** 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion‎, page 266:In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: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.
** 2018, Bill Wurtz (lyrics and music), “Long Long Long Journey”‎: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
* (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
    We travelled to the seaside by road.
* (dated) A physical way or route.
** 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC: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.
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 131: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.
* (figuratively) A path chosen, as in life or career. [from 17th c.]
    the road to happiness; the road to success.
** 1964, Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing:Where, then, is the road to peace?
** 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport: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. [from 18th c.]
* (US, rail transport) A railway or (UK, rail transport) a single railway track. [from 19th c.]
** 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527:The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.
* (obsolete) The act of riding on horseback. [9th–17th c.]
* (obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid. [9th–19th c.]
* (nautical, usually in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead. [from 14th c.]
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:Antonio: Sweet lady, you have given me life and living; / For here I read for certain that my ships / Are safely come to road.
** 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 38:There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade, than any thing else […].
* (obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
** 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]: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; […]
* (cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.

#### Usage notes

* Often used interchangeably with street or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ride), as in the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking, paved.

#### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:road

#### Derived terms

* 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
* 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
* dirt road
* distributor road
* down the road
* driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
* droveroad
* drove road
* drover's road
* drovers' road
* dyke road
* end of the road
* E-road
* escape road
* fireroad
* flavor of the road
* fork in the road
* frontage road
* get the show on the road
* get this show on the road
* go down that road
* go down the road
* Grampound Road
* granger road
* gravel road
* gravel road cop
* Great North Road
* Great Roads
* grid road
* Hampton Roads
* Harling Road
* haul road
* Heads of the Valleys Road
* highroad, high road
* his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
* hit the road
* hold the road
* ice road
* inroad
* interroad
* iron road
* it's a long road that has no turning
* jinny road
* keep the show on the road
* kick the can down the road
* knight of the road
* Lahaina Roads
* let's get this circus on the road
* long road to hoe
* low road
* Mackinnon Road
* main road
* make the road shorter
* middle of the road, middle-of-the-road
* middle-road
* middle-roader
* miles of bad road
* Milwaukee Road
* Morchard Road
* nanoroad
* narrow road
* national road
* New Roads
* Nickel Plate Road
* nonroad
* no through road
* off-road bike
* offroad, off-road
* Old Kent Road
* one for the road
* on-road
* onroad
* on the road
* open road
* open-road
* over-the-road
* pave the road to hell
* pay-per-use road
* Persian Royal Road
* plank road
* postroad
* post-road
* priority road
* railroad
* ridge road
* ring road
* roadability
* roadable
* road accident
* road-agent
* road agent
* road allowance
* road apple
* roadbase
* roadbed
* road bicycle
* road bike
* roadblock
* road block
* roadbook
* road bowling
* road bridge, roadbridge
* roadbuilder
* roadbuilding
* road burn
* roadburner
* road captain
* road car
* road case
* road company
* roadcraft
* road crew
* roadcrew
* roadcut
* road cycling
* road dawg
* road diet
* road dog
* roaded
* roadeo
* roader
* road event
* road export
* road film
* roadful
* road fund licence
* road furniture
* road game
* road gang
* roadgeek
* roadgoing
* road grit
* road harrow
* road head
* road hockey
* road hog, road-hog
* roadholding
* roadhouse
* road hump
* road hypnosis
* road hypnotism
* roadie
* roading
* road iron
* roadish
* roadkill
* roadkilled
* roadless
* road less traveled
* road less travelled
* roadlike
* road locomotive
* road machine
* roadmaker
* roadmaking
* roadman
* road manager
* road map
* roadmaster
* roadmender
* roadmending
* road metal
* road moai
* road movie
* roadness
* roadometer
* road picture
* road pizza
* road pricing
* road race
* road racing
* road rage
* road rager
* road-raging
* road-rail
* road-railer
* road-rail vehicle
* road rash
* road reclaimer
* road recycler
* road roller
* roadrunner
* road salt
* roadscape
* road scraper
* road service
* roadshow
* road shower
* roadside
* road sign
* roadslope
* road slug
* road spikes
* roadstead
* road steamer
* roadster
* roadstone
* road switcher
* road-test
* road test
* roadtest
* road to Damascus
* road train
* road transportation
* road trip
* road user
* road warrior
* roadwarrior
* roadway
* roadweed
* roadwheel
* roadwise
* road work
* roadwork
* roadworker
* roadworks
* roadworn
* roadworthy
* rocky road
* Roman road
* roval
* royal road
* rule of the road
* rules of the road
* run out of road
* service road
* shell road
* side road, sideroad
* Silk Road
* skid road
* slip road, sliproad
* someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
* spine road
* spirit road
* St Columb Road
* stroad
* superroad
* take the high road
* take to the road
* Tapah Road
* telpher road
* Texel Roads
* the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
* the road to hell is paved with good intentions
* the rubber hits the road
* the rubber meets the road
* Tobacco Road
* tobacco-roader
* toll road
* tote road
* tough road to hoe
* track-road
* tramroad
* trunk road
* two-forty on a plank road
* unadopted road
* whale-road
* what happens on the road stays on the road
* where the rubber meets the road
* wide place in the road
* wide spot in the road
* wind road
* winter road
* yellow-brick road
* yellow brick road, Yellow Brick Road

#### Translations

Adyghe: гъогу (ğʷogʷu)
Afar: gita
Afrikaans: pad (af), straat (af), weg (af)
Ainu: ル (ru)
Akan: ɛkwan, kwan
Aklanon: daean
Albanian: udhë (sq) f, rrugë (sq) f
Amharic: መንገድ (mängäd)
Apache:
Western Apache: ʼintin
Arabic: طَرِيق (ar) m or f (ṭarīq) (طُرُق (ar) m pl (ṭuruq)), سِكَّة f (sikka)
Egyptian Arabic: سكّة m (sekka)
Gulf Arabic: طِريج (ṭirīj)
Hijazi Arabic: طَريق m (ṭarīg)
Iraqi Arabic: درب m (darub)
Moroccan Arabic: طْريق f (ṭrīq)
Archi: декъӏ (deq̣ʼ)
Armenian: ճանապարհ (hy) (čanaparh), ճամփա (hy) (čampʻa)
Aromanian: cali (roa-rup) f, drum n, susachi
Assamese: বাট (bat), আলি (ali), ৰাস্তা (rasta)
Asturian: camín (ast) m
Avar: нух (nux)
Azerbaijani: yol (az)
Bashkir: юл (yul)
Basque: bide (eu), errepide
Bau Bidayuh: oran
Baure: kaye
Belarusian: даро́га f (daróha), шлях m (šljax), пуць m (pucʹ)
Bengali: রাস্তা (bn) (rasta), সড়ক (bn) (śoṛok)
Blackfoot: mohsoko
Bouyei: vdonl
Breton: hent (br) m
Bulgarian: път (bg) m (pǎt)
Burmese: လမ်း (my) (lam:)
Carpathian Rusyn: доро́га f (doróha)
Catalan: carretera (ca) f
Cebuano: dalan
Central Melanau: jalan
Chamicuro: ajtini
Chechen: некъ (neqʼ)
Cherokee: ᏅᏃᎯ (nvnohi)
Chichewa: msewu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 路 (lou$^6$), 道路 (dou$^6$ lou$^6$)
Dungan: лў (lw), лўдо (lwdo)
Eastern Min: 墿 / 𰉣 (diô), 道 (dô̤), 路 (lô)
Hokkien: 路 (zh-min-nan) (lō͘), 道路 (zh-min-nan) (tō-lō͘)
Mandarin: 路 (zh) (lù), 道路 (zh) (dàolù), 馬路 / 马路 (zh) (mǎlù), 道 (zh) (dào)
Northern Min: 墿 / 𰉣 (diō̤)
Wu: 路, 道路 ($^6$dau-lu)
Cree: meskanaw
Crimean Tatar: yol
Czech: cesta (cs) f, silnice (cs) f
Danish: vej (da) c
Dutch: weg (nl) m
Egyptian: (wꜣt f)
Erzya: ки (ki)
Esperanto: ŝoseo, vojo (eo)
Estonian: tee (et), maantee
Even: хотаран (hotaran)
Evenki: хокто (hokto)
Farefare: sore
Faroese: vegur (fo) m
Finnish: tie (fi), maantie (fi)
French: route (fr) f
Galician: estrada (gl) f
Georgian: გზა (gza)
German: Straße (de) f
Greek: δρόμος (el) m (drómos)
Ancient: ὁδός f (hodós), (Epic) κέλευθος f (kéleuthos)
Guaraní: ape, ape guasu, apehũ (paved with asphalt, lit. "black road")
Gujarati: માર્ગ (mārg)
Haitian Creole: wout
Hebrew: כְּבִישׁ (he) m (k'vish)
Higaonon: dalan
Hiligaynon: dalan
Hindi: सड़क (hi) f (saṛak), रास्ता (hi) m (rāstā), मार्ग (hi) m (mārg), पथ (hi) m (path)
Hungarian: út (hu), közút (hu)
Iban: jalai
Icelandic: vegur (is) m
Ido: choseo (io), voyo (io)
Indonesian: jalan (id)
Interlingua: strata, via (ia)
Iranun: lalan
Irish: bóthar (ga) m, slí f
Isthmus Zapotec: neza
Istriot: veîa f
Italian: strada (it) f
Japanese: 道 (ja) (みち, michi), 道路 (ja) (どうろ, dōro)
Kanakanabu: cacaan
Kannada: ರಸ್ತೆ (kn) (raste)
Karelian: tie
Kashubian: darga f
Kazakh: жол (kk) (jol)
Ket: ӄо’т
Khmer: ផ្លូវ (km) (phləw), ថ្នល់ (km) (thnɑl)
Kongo: nzila
Korean: 길 (ko) (gil), 도로(道路) (ko) (doro)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕێگە (rêge)
Northern Kurdish: rê (ku), rêk (ku)
Kyrgyz: жол (ky) (jol)
Lakota: ocanku
Lao: ຫົນທາງ (lo) (hon thāng), ທາງ (thāng), ຖະໜົນ (lo) (tha non), ຖນົນ (tha non)
Latgalian: ceļš, saša
Latin: via (la) f, iter (la) n
Latvian: ceļš (lv) m, šoseja f
Lezgi: рехъ (req)
Lingala: nzelá class 9/10, balabala (ln), mofali
Lithuanian: kelias (lt) m, plentas m
Low German: Straat (nds) m
Lü: ᦑᦱᧂ (taang)
Luhya: engila
Macedonian: пат (mk) m (pat), друм m (drum), улица (mk) f (ulica)
Maguindanao: lalan
Malay: jalan (ms)
Malayalam: റോഡ് (ṟōḍŭ)
Maltese: triq (mt) f
Manchu: ᠵᡠᡤᡡᠨ (jugūn), ᠣᠨ (on)
Manx: raad m
Maori: rori (mi) m
Maranao: lalan
Marathi: रस्ता (rastā)
Mehri: حورم
Moksha: ки (ki)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зам харгуй (zam xarguj), гудамж (mn) (gudamž), зам (mn) (zam)
Moore: sore
Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵖⴰⵔⴰⵙ m (aɣaras), ⴰⴱⵔⵉⴷ m (abrid)
Nahuatl: ohtli (nah)
Nanai: покто (pokto)
Nepali: सडक (saḍak)
Ngarrindjeri: yarluke
Ngazidja Comorian: pare class 5/6
Nivkh: тиф (țif)
Norman: route f
Norn: goda f, gøda f
Northern Mansi: лё̄ӈх (lë̄ňh)
Northern Ohlone: 'ín̄u'
Northern Sami: geaidnu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vei (no) m
Nynorsk: veg m
Occitan: rota (oc) f
Odia: ରାସ୍ତା (or) (rāstā)
Ojibwe: miikana, miikanan pl
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: пѫть m (pǫtĭ), цѣста f (cěsta)
Glagolitic: ⱂⱘⱅⱐ m (pǫtĭ), ⱌⱑⱄⱅⰰ f (cěsta)
Old Czech: cěsta f
Old East Slavic: дорога f (doroga), путь m (putĭ)
Old English: weġ m
Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰆𐰞 (y¹ul¹ /⁠yol⁠/)
Oromo: karaa
Ottoman Turkish: یول (yol)
Pali: magga m, patha m
Pannonian Rusyn: драга f (draha)
Pashto: واټ (ps) m (wāṭṭ)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: راه (fa) (râh), جادِّه (jâdde), جادِه (jâde)
Pitjantjatjara: iwara
Plautdietsch: Wajch m, Gauss f
Polish: droga (pl) f, szosa (pl) f, ulica (pl) f
Portuguese: estrada (pt) f, caminho (pt) m, via (pt) f
Powhatan: mew
Punjabi: ਸੜਕ (pa) f (saṛak), ਰਸਤਾ m (rastā)
Quechua: ñan
Rapa Nui: ara
Red Gelao: xi⁴⁴
Romani: drom m
Romanian: drum (ro) n, cale (ro) f
Russian: доро́га (ru) f (doróga), путь (ru) m (putʹ)
Sanskrit: मार्ग (sa) m (mārga), पथ (sa) m (patha)
Scots: gait, gate, ruid, road
Scottish Gaelic: rathad m, slighe f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пу̑т m, дру̏м m, цѐста f
Roman: pȗt (sh) m, drȕm (sh) m, cèsta (sh) f
Shan: သၢႆတၢင်း (shn) (sǎai táang), တၢင်း (shn) (táang)
Sinhalese: පාර (pāra)
Slovak: cesta (sk) f, dráha (sk) f
Slovene: cesta (sl) f, pot (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: droga f
Upper Sorbian: dróha f
Sotho: tsela (st), seterata
Spanish: camino (es) m, calle (es) f, ruta (es) f, carretera (es) f, calzada (es) (part of a street between sidewalks)
Sranan Tongo: pasi
Sundanese: jalan (su)
Swahili: njia (sw) class 9/10, barabara (sw)
Swedish: väg (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠞꠣꠍ꠆ꠔꠣ (raśta), ꠙꠕ (fotó)
Tabasaran: рякъ (rjaq̄)
Tachawit: abrid (shy)
Tagalog: daan (tl), kalsada, kalye
Tajik: роҳ (tg) (roh), ҷода (joda)
Talysh: ro
Tamil: சாலை (ta) (cālai)
Taos: pʼį́ęna
Tarantino: strade f
Tarifit: abrid m
Tashelhit: ⴰⵖⴰⵔⴰⵙ m (aɣaras)
Tat: ra
Tatar: юл (tt) (yul)
Telugu: రహదారి (te) (rahadāri)
Tetum: lurón
Thai: ถนน (th) (tà-nǒn), ทาง (th) (taang), หนทาง (th) (hǒn-taang)
Tibetan: ལམ་ཀ (lam ka) (colloquial), ལམ (lam) (literary)
Tigrinya: መንገዲ (ti) (mängädi)
Tocharian A: ytār
Tocharian B: ytārye
Tok Pisin: rot
Tswana: tsela (tn)
Tupinambá: pé, apé (s-)
Turkish: yol (tr)
Turkmen: ýol (tk)
Tuvan: орук (oruk)
Ukrainian: доро́га (uk) f (doróha), шлях (uk) m (šljax), путь m (putʹ)
Urdu: سَڑَک f (saṛak), راسْتَہ m (rāsta), جادَہ m (jāda)
Uyghur: يول (yol)
Uzbek: yoʻl (uz)
Vietnamese: đường (vi), đường bộ (vi)
Vilamovian: wȧg
Walloon: voye (wa)
Welsh: ffordd (cy) f
West Frisian: wei c
White Hmong: kev
Xhosa: lendlela
Yagnobi: рос (ros)
Yakut: суол (suol)
Yapese: woq
Yiddish: וועג m (veg), טראַקט (trakt)
Zazaki: ray, rah
Zealandic: wegt m, pad m
Zhuang: loh, roen
Zulu: umgwaqo (zu) class 3/4 :
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### Adjective

road (not comparable)
* (US, Canada, sports, chiefly attributive) At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
* (cycling) Of or pertaining to a road bike.
    road tires
    road groupset

#### Synonyms

* (at the venue of the opposing team or competitor): away (UK)

### Anagrams

* orad, A-Rod, Rado, orda, Dora, DORA

## Estonian
### Noun

road
* nominative plural of roog

## Swedish
### Participle

road
* past participle of roa

### Adjective

road (not comparable)
* amused, entertained

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Related terms

* lättroad
* oroad

### Anagrams

* orda