road

Significado (English)

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.

Synonyms

path

🛣️

way

street

route

track

trail

highway

avenue

roadway

course

passage

pathway

lane

thoroughfare

journey

alley

method

boulevard

distance

highroad

pass

run

high road

motorway

🛣️

roadstead

side street

broad path

street traffic

pike

carriageway

on the road

railway

direction

public way

race

rd

river

roads

sidewalk

superhighway

throughway

thruway

towpath

tracks

traffic

travel

turnpike

walk

🚶

way of living

coming and going

motor road

public road

state highway

super highway

trade-route

national highway

busway

r.

high-way

that side

throughfare

pike

beam

bridge

canal

correspondence

country road

crooked

crossroad

crossroads

door

🚪

doorway

drive

expressway

footpath

footprints

👣

freeway

gallery

heat

land

line

link

🔗

main road

main street

mall

manner

means

meatus

mindset

orbit

pace

passageway

pavement

plan

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹəʊd/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglês médio: rode

Inherited from inglês arcaico: rād

Cognate with scots: -

In summary

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.

Frases

Choose between the high road and the low .

Escolha entre a estrada alta e a baixa.

The road is blocked .

A estrada está bloqueada.

Two women riding their bicycles along a dirt road .

Duas mulheres andando de bicicleta ao longo de uma estrada de terra.

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

Participar do tráfego rodoviário é potencialmente perigoso depois de doar sangue.

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

Não era mais emocionante do que um carruagem capotado ou uma árvore soprada do outro lado da estrada.

The wide road shimmered in the hot sun .

A estrada larga brilhava ao sol quente.

He practices road cycling and track cycling .

Ele pratica ciclismo de estrada e ciclismo de pista.

The station was located on an embankment to the north of Milltown Road .

A estação estava localizada em um aterro ao norte da Milltown Road.