/ɾoːɖ/ · noun
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..
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
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 the road I was hunting for.
And the road doesn't end / It's a long, long road and we follow it again and again / And the road don't pretend
We travelled to the seaside by road.
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 the road to the door,’ and steamed out.
Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty.
the road to happiness; the road to success.
Where, then, is the road to peace?
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Road means 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..
Common synonyms include frog, frog and toad, marg, road.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
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