road

CEFRA2

/ɾoːɖ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A hard surface used by vehicles and people to travel between places.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A physical way or route.

Examples

  • A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill.

  • It's a long road with no curves.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /rod/
  • /ɹəʊd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.

  2. 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.

  3. An underground tunnel in a mine.

More examples

In context

  • She rode off down the road with the dog running behind.

  • the road to happiness; the road to success.

  • We travelled to the seaside by road.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.