Question: what is the english translation for the chinese word dao as it applies to daoism

title: Tao
text: dào 道 N. ( noun ) road ; path M. ( nominal measure word ) 1 ( for rivers / topics / etc . ) 2 ( for a course ( of food ) ; a streak ( of light ) ; etc . ) V. ( verb ) 1 say ; speak ; talk ( introducing direct quote , novel style ) ... 2 think ; suppose B.F. ( bound form , bound morpheme ) 1 channel 2 way ; reason ; principle 3 doctrine 4 Daoism 5 line 6 〈 hist. 〉 ( history ) 7 district ; circuit canal ; passage ; tube 8 say ( polite words ) ... See also dǎo , dāo