road
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: roads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rade
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We travelled to the seaside by road.
gloss: A physical way or route.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
gloss: A path chosen, as in life or career.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: An underground tunnel in a mine.
pos: noun
gloss: A railroad.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
gloss: A single railroad track (railway track).
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of riding on horseback.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: 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 […].
gloss: A journey, or stage of a journey.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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; […]
gloss: A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
pos: noun
gloss: At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
attributive
not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to a road bike.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: road tires
road groupset
Synonyms: frog
frog and toad
marg
road
street
Related words: curb
gutter
kerb
roadside
road sign
street sign
traffic light
wayside
:Category:Roads
Derived words: 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
dirt road
distributor road
down the road
driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
droveroad
drove road
drovers' road
drover's road
dyke road
Eccles Road
end of the road
E-road
escape road
express 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
green road
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
onroad
on-road
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
rd
rd.
Rd
Rd.
ridge road
ring road
roadability
roadable
road accident
road agent
road-agent
road allowance
road apple
roadbase
roadbed
road bicycle
road bike
road block
roadblock
roadbook
road bowling
road bridge
roadbridge
roadbuilder
roadbuilding
road burn
roadburner
road captain
road car
road case
road company
road concurrency
roadcraft
road crew
roadcrew
roadcut
road cycling
road dawg
road diet
road dog
roaded
roadeo
roader
road event
road export
roadfellow
road film
roadful
road fund licence
road furniture
road game
road gang
roadgeek
roadgoing
road-goose
road grit
road harrow
road head
road hockey
road hog
road-hog
roadholding
road horse
roadhouse
road hump
road hypnosis
road hypnotism
roadie
roading
road iron
roadish
roadkill
roadkilled
roadless
road less traveled
road less travelled
roadlet
roadlike
roadline
road locomotive
road machine
roadmaker
roadmaking
roadman
road manager
roadmap
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 running
road salt
roadscape
road scraper
road service
roadshow
road shower
roadside
road sign
roadslope
road slug
road spikes
road spray
roadstead
road steamer
roadster
roadstone
road switcher
road tax
road-test
road test
roadtest
road to Damascus
road train
road transportation
road trip
road user
road verge
road warrior
roadwarrior
roadway
roadweed
roadwheel
roadwhore
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
sail-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
Stroud Road
superroad
swan's road
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
unmade road
unsealed road
whale-road
whale's road
what happens on the road stays on the road
wheelroad
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
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