Synonyms for road
roʊdroad

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1. road

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. 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. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

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1. road

   Synonyms:
   public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway, path

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.8 / 6 votes

1. road, routenoun

   an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

   Synonyms:
   route, itinerary, path

2. roadnoun

   a way or means to achieve something

   "the road to fame"

   Synonyms:
   route

Matched Categories

1. • Means
   • Way

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1. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   path, way, lane, street, route, course, pathway, track, TRAIL, highway, thoroughfare, highroad

2. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   roadstead, anchorage

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1. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane, passage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad, causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, impasse

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1. List of paraphrases for "road":

   highway, roads, route, path, sheet, on-road, way, roadway, chemin, heron, highways, estrada, traffic, avenue, routier, carretera, routes, dao, track, journey, straße, street, leaf, roadways, hwy, carriageway, course, direction, strada

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1. ROAD

   Synonyms:
   Renoprotection of Optimal Antiproteinuric Doses

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How to use road in a sentence?

1. Jon Whiten:

   Now the state can't even afford the anticipated first-year loss from the tax credits, and is looking at kicking the can even further down the road.

2. Eric Sanders:

   It’s an excellent charge. It’s going to stick in court, you cannot run bikes off the road. You cannot swerve toward them. You definitely cannot hit them and get away with it.

3. Stefan Pfeiffer:

   While traffic safety presumably increases as fewer people are on the road, individual drivers worsen the situation with their irresponsible and at times completely reckless behavior.

4. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre:

   Police are searching for a suspect in the area of Hooshootoo Road at Tiger Bend Road. The white male suspect is believed to have exchanged gunfire with the Trooper and is considered to be armed and dangerous.

5. Russ Rader:

   Unfortunately, we have no evidence that these laws reduce crashes. one theory is that drivers -- these laws are well publicized -- may be trying to conceal what they're doing so they're not spotted by a police officer. So they move the device down below window level, thus taking their eyes off the road.