Road

Noun

 * 1) A way used for travelling between places, usually surfaced with asphalt or concrete. Modern roads, both rural and urban, are designed to accommodate many vehicles traveling in both directions.
 * 2)  A path chosen in life or career.

Adjectives for Road
superb; dilapidated; wood; rutty; rugged; circuitous; white; sand; sun-splashed; tortuous; steep; hilly; silver; swarming; mended; half-defined; romantic; turfy; unguarded; lakeside; starless; forsaken; military; thorny; fated; unknown; coral-bordered; red; rutted; surest; moon-lit; wrong; disused; miraculous; holy; intricate; dreary; elevated; bumpy; glaring; subtler; dubious; frozen; shaded; heavenly; indistinguishable; interminable; various (plural); treacherous; miserable; smoother; level; macadamized; translucent; narrow; sinuous; weary; unfamiliar; dappled; scenic; uneven; undulating; zigzagging; ready; unbroken; endless; beaten; unfrequented; homeward; arduous; gliding; country; grass-grown; monotonous; impassable; lifeless; miry; shady; sunny; winding; smiling; serpentine; misty; worthless; conventional; parched; dusty; corduroy;

Verbs for Road
patrol—; plod along—; skim along—; slog over—; skirt—; surface—; trudge along—; bank—; bounce over—; clock—; clog—; deviate from—; diverge from—; infest—; — ambles ; —s converge; —meanders; —s radiate from; —rambles; —swarms; —sweeps along; —wanders; —wearies; —winds; jog along—; jounce over—; level—;

Thesaurus
street, superhighway, technique, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, tour, township road, track, trade route, trajectory, turnpike, walk, waterway, way, wharf, access, air lane, alley, alleyway, anchorage, anchorage ground, approach, approaches, arm, armlet, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, avenue, basin, bay, bayou, beat, belt, belt highway, berth, bight, blind alley, boulevard, breakwater, bulkhead, bypass, byway, carriageway, causeway, channel, chuck, circuit, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, course, court, cove, creek, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, direction, dirt road, dock, dockyard, drag, drive, driveway, dry dock, embankment, entree, estuary, expressway, fairway, fjord, flight path, freeway, gravel road, groin, gulf, gut, harbor, haven, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interstate highway, itinerary, jetty, kyle, landing, landing place, landing stage, lane, line, local road, loch, main drag, main road, marina, means, method, mews, mole, moorings, motorway, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, orbit, parkway, passage, path, pave, paved road, pier, pike, place, plank road, port, primary highway, primrose path, private road, procedure, protected anchorage, quay, reach, riding, right-of-way, ring road, roadbed, roads, roadway, round, route, row, royal road, run, sea lane, seaport, seawall, seaway, secondary road, ship route, shipyard, shortcut, slip, sound, speedway, state highway, steamer track, strait, straits.

Etymology
From rad: <  < from. Cognate to West Frisian reed (unpaved road).

Derived terms

 * A road
 * B road
 * back road
 * burn up the road
 * byroad
 * C road
 * corduroy road
 * crossroad
 * down the road
 * end of the road
 * fork in the road
 * Great North road
 * highroad/high road/take the high road
 * hit the road
 * low road
 * middle of the road/middle-of-the-road
 * nonroad
 * offroad/off-road
 * on the road
 * one for the road
 * Persian Royal Road
 * railroad
 * ring road
 * roadability
 * road allowance
 * road apple
 * roadbase
 * roadbed
 * roadblock
 * road case
 * roader
 * road export
 * road fund licence


 * road gang
 * road hockey
 * road hog/road-hog
 * roadhouse
 * roadie
 * roadkill
 * roadless
 * road map
 * road movie
 * roadness
 * road race
 * road rage
 * road rash
 * roadroller
 * roadrunner
 * roadshow
 * roadside
 * road sign
 * roadstead
 * roadster
 * road to Damascus
 * road train
 * road trip
 * road warrior
 * roadway
 * roadwork
 * roadworks
 * roadworthy
 * rocky road
 * slip road/sliproad
 * Tobacco Road
 * yellow brick road/Yellow Brick Road

Anagrams

 * Dora
 * orad

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, ,
 * Ainu: ル (ru)
 * Amharic: መንገድ (menged)
 * Ancient Greek: ὁδός
 * Arabic: (طرق)
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ճանապարհ,
 * Azeri:
 * Baure:
 * Belarusian: дарога
 * Blackfoot: mohsoko
 * Bosnian:, , ,
 * Breton: hent, hentoù
 * Bulgarian: път
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cree: meskanaw
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:, maantee
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: estrada
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Guaraní: ape (t-), ape guasu (t-), apehũ (t-) (paved with asphalt, lit. "black road")
 * Hebrew: כביש
 * Hindi: सड़क, रास्ता, मार्ग
 * Hungarian: út, közút
 * Ido: choseo, voyo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: strata, via
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: neza
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 道
 * Kannada: ರಸ್ತೆ (raste)
 * Korean: 길
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ڕێگه‌


 * Lakota: ocanku
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin: via, viae ; iter
 * Latvian: ceļš, šoseja
 * Lithuanian: kelias, plentas
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: пат, ,
 * Malay:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan: rota
 * Ojibwe: miikana, miikanan
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: راه, جاده
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Powhatan: mew
 * Romanian: drum,, cale
 * Russian:, путь
 * Scottish Gaelic: rathad ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пут, друм , цеста , улица
 * Roman: put, drum , cesta , ulica
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: tsela, seterata
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: njia sg/pl (noun 9/10),
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Taos: p’į́ęna
 * Telugu: వీధి (veedhi)
 * Tetum: lurón
 * Thai: ถนน
 * Tupinambá: pé, apé (s-)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: дорога, шлях
 * Urdu: سڑک
 * Vietnamese: đường
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Xhosa: lendlela


 * Finnish:
 * Persian:


 * Russian: путь
 * Swahili:

Adjective

 * 1) amused, entertained

Related terms

 * lättroad
 * oroad