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Snowy road on Overwaitea Hill, Wallinger Avenue, Kimberley, BC.

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishrode,rade(“ride, journey”), fromOld Englishrād(“riding, hostile incursion”), fromProto-West Germanic*raidu, fromProto-Germanic*raidō(“a ride”), fromProto-Indo-European*reydʰ-(“to ride”).Doublet ofraid, acquired fromScots. Cognates include West Frisianreed (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 ofroadway(“a way for riding on”) as sayingway twice, in other words as atautologicalcompound.

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Noun

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road (pluralroads)

  2. Away used fortravelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually onesurfaced withasphalt orconcrete and designed to accommodate manyvehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a countrylane.[from 16th c.]
    • 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, inGraham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion‎[1], page266:
      In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-rememberedroad.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      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 theroad I was hunting for.
    • 2018, Bill Wurtz, “Long Long Long Journey”‎[2]:
      And theroad doesn't end / It's a long, longroad and we follow it again and again / And theroad don't pretend
  3. (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially bymotor vehicle.
    We travelled to the seaside byroad.
  4. (dated) A physical way or route.
    • 1855 December –1857 June,Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1857,→OCLC:
      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 theroad to the door,’ and steamed out.
    • 1930,Norman Lindsay,Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith,→OCLC, page131:
      Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon hisroad his way was blocked by Hetty.
  5. (figuratively) Apath chosen, as inlife orcareer.[from 17th c.]
    theroad to happiness; theroad to success.
    • 1964, Ronald Reagan,A Time for Choosing:
      Where, then, is theroad to peace?
    • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, inBBC Sport:
      Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on theroad to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
  6. An undergroundtunnel in amine.[from 18th c.]
  8. (US, rail transport, archaic) Arailroad.
  10. (US, UK, rail transport) A singlerailroad track (railway track).[from 19th c.]
    • 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, inTrains Illustrated, page527:
      The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three receptionroads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nineroads, a lifting shop with tworoads and three permanent way sidings.
  11. (obsolete) The act ofriding onhorseback.[9th–17th c.]
  12. (obsolete) Ahostileride against a particular area; araid.[9th–19th c.]
  14. (nautical, usually in theplural) A partlysheltered area of water near a shore in whichvessels may ride atanchor; aroadstead.[from 14th c.]
    • c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
      Antonio: Sweet lady, you have given me life and living; / For here I read for certain that my ships / Are safely come toroad.
    • 1630,John Smith,True Travels, Kupperman, published1988, page38:
      There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in theRoade, than any thing else […].
  15. (obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
  16. (cricket) Ahard,flatpitch, typically favourable forbatters.

Usage notes

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  • Often used interchangeably withstreet or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation withride), as in theGreat North Road from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking, paved.

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Descendants

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Translations

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a way for travel
nautical: partially sheltered waters—seeroadstead
a path in life
way or route
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Adjective

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road (notcomparable)

  1. (US, Canada, sports, chiefly attributive) At thevenue of theopposing team orcompetitor;on the road.
  2. (cycling) Of or pertaining to aroad bike.
    road tires
    road groupset

Synonyms

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  • (at the venue of the opposing team or competitor):away(UK)

Anagrams

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Estonian

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Noun

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road

  1. nominativeplural ofroog

Swedish

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Participle

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road

  1. pastparticiple ofroa

Adjective

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road (notcomparable)

  1. amused,entertained

Declension

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Inflection ofroad
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularroad——
neuter singularroat——
pluralroade——
masculine plural2roade——
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3roade——
allroade——

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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