Synonyms for road
roʊdroad

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. roadnoun

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

2. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   roadstead, anchorage

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

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

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ROAD

   Synonyms:
   Renoprotection of Optimal Antiproteinuric Doses

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1. H. M. Tomlinson:

   It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

2. Abu Ghayth:

   Living conditions are ... difficult because the Castello road, the only road, is being targeted by fire, many cars use this route to provide essential goods and they have to drive through danger. Many cars and their owners are bombed on the road.

3. Dan Pendergast:

   When it starts to snow, you will get that initial snow to melt on the road and you are going to have traffic rolling over the road and more snow, the snow starts compacting and bonding to the road. You're not going to get it off, there's not a heck of a lot you can do because you're not going to be able to get the chemicals down and I'm guessing those areas don't have the equipment we have here, like the icebreakers and really good cutting-edge equipment. We have 800 plows in the state, 200 in the metro area, Atlanta and Virginia are probably going to have 40 or less.

4. Tim Wiley:

   Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get you there. The road you take is what you'll look back on And call your life. Not reaching success isn't the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is.

5. Pauline Moreno:

   The fact that she's transgender gives her a harder road ahead, an absolute harder road.