ROAD
noun
Synonyms
Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.
Definitions
- 1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.
- 2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.
- 3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.
- 4. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. Shak.
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025