road

noun

ˈrōd How to pronounce road (audio)
Definition of roadnext
1
as in highway
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel I think we should take one of the less congested roads

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2
as in railroad
a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel the railway companies are continually repairing their roads

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Recent Examples of road The road is heavily traveled and now has Staten Island’s main post office off of Manor Rd. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026 The group called on the Wyoming and Idaho transportation departments to place temporary restrictions prohibiting RVs, vehicles towing trailers and vehicles of more than 40,000 pounds from driving the road. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 25 Aug. 2026 As his condition worsened, his mother brought him to his grandparents’ house on a busy country road. — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026 Local officials opened shelters for evacuees as crews closed roads and shuttered local schools. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for road
Recent Examples of Synonyms for road
  1. highway
  2. railroad
  3. street
  4. railway
  5. thoroughfare
  6. freeway
  7. route
  8. expressway
Noun
  • While crews were at the scene, a separate crash occurred on the eastbound side of the highway when a driver slowed down to look at the wreck, according to Peck.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Minneapolis has long been a civic-minded metropolis, where even the choice of vegetation on highway medians can become the subject of extended public debate, in a state with a history of protest going back to the nineteenth century.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • The initiative, according to details shared first with Semafor, will allow state-level transportation agencies and railroads to lease out land alongside roads and tracks to private sector companies to develop new infrastructure.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Some areas have paused data center expansion Stroy’s fields are just outside Murdock, a village named for a railroad official at the company that first laid tracks here in the 1890s.
    — Will Weissert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of railroad
Noun
  • An Arkansas State Police trooper was captured on dashcam footage yanking the passenger of a vehicle by his hair and punching him in the face after a high-speed chase that ended in the streets of Blytheville.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2026
  • There’s no denying that the fall 2026 runways made a strong case for color; even the street style scene is on board, slipping into colorful shoes and sporting handbags in a variety of vibrant shades—baby pink, chartreuse, and cobalt.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • At Hull’s railway station an hour or so later, a few Manchester United fans are scanning the departures board near Philip Larkin’s statue, which captures the late poet mid-stride.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The cache, discovered near Kojetín in central Moravia during archaeological work connected to a railway project, contained an assortment of worn and broken bronze objects.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of railway
Noun
  • The partnership between two outsiders clawing their way in, joined by an equally canny journalist played by Claire Foy, comes to shape Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare where scribblers plied their trade, in Lamb’s and Murdoch’s images.
    — Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Kitchens were structured for high throughput and delivery vehicles lined up on the other side of the building to take finished meals and speed them along critical thoroughfares for timely and low-cost delivery.
    — George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
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  • Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In the city today, the Salt River is mostly reduced to a wide, dusty trough that passes unceremoniously under freeway bridges.
    — Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeway
Noun
  • Check the requirement, confirm the route, draft the plan, or ask one better question.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Together, Jaybush, Brad Chambers, and the American Heavy Moving team figured out a route through the city that avoided street trees, tight turns, and roads that run above old, fragile sewer pipes, which aren’t rated for heavy loads.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of route
Noun
  • The driver is also alleged to have made a U-turn from a through lane after exiting the expressway, according to the affidavit.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Directed by Takahiro Hasui, the latest installment in the franchise tracks Conan Edogawa investigating high-speed vehicular sabotage on an expressway network.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
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“Road.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/road. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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