Synonyms for road
- noun
- adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
- adj. 1
At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
Related words
- Word family
- roadgeek road-goose roadhouse roadless roadlike roadline roadmaker roadman
- Phrases
- hit the road access road ring road skid road swan's road down the road high road no through road
- Is a kind of
- infrastructure way
Forms
- Plural
- roads → streets, highways, routes, tracks…
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A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- street Many restaurants and pubs are on Itsutsugi Street.
- track I think this project is moving on the right track.
- route Taking a round-trip is longer than a direct route.
- highway How can we reduce the number of highway accidents?
- parade The band entertained the spectators at the parade.
- causeway An artificial causeway was built across the strait.
By length
- 3 letters
- way1
- 4 letters
- away2, pass1, path1, lane1, frog1
- 5 letters
- drive1, track1, route1
- 6 letters
- course1, street1, access2, avenue3, parade2, artery3
- 7 letters
- highway2, passage2, touring2, roadway2
- 8 letters
- turnpike2, causeway2
- 9 letters
- boulevard3, anchorage3, roadstead
- 12 letters
- thoroughfare3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (away2 = 2 syllables).