road

Meaning

Noun

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.
2. Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
3. A physical way or route.
4. A path chosen, as in life or career.
5. An underground tunnel in a mine.
6. A railway or (UK, rail transport) a single railway track.
7. (obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
8. (obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
9. A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
10. (obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.

Adj

1. At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
2. Of or pertaining to a road bike.

Concepts

road

path

way

street

route

track

trail

highway

avenue

roadway

course

passage

pathway

lane

thoroughfare

journey

alley

method

highroad

boulevard

pass

run

distance

pike

broad path

street traffic

direction

railway

roadstead

high road

on the road

motorway

side street

carriageway

coming and going

correspondence

r.

mall

walk

pavement

towpath

line

high-way

rd

trade-route

gallery

orbit

doorway

main road

way of living

heat

race

land

link

beam

canal

meatus

throughfare

crooked

public way

door

drive

passageway

national highway

travel

roads

river

that side

means

traffic

country road

footprints

tracks

main street

bridge

mindset

expressway

freeway

state highway

super highway

superhighway

throughway

thruway

turnpike

motor road

busway

sidewalk

public road

footpath

plan

pace

crossroad

manner

crossroads

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹəʊd/

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, and 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.

Sentences

The road is blocked .

Two women riding their bicycles along a dirt road .

Taking part in road traffic is potentially dangerous after donating blood .

It was no more exciting than an overturned carriage or a tree blown across the road .

He practices road cycling and track cycling .