| 单词 | great road |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat road great road n. [in use with reference to France after French grand chemin (late 14th cent.) or grand rue (early 15th cent.)] now somewhat archaic or historical a main road, the principal highway; also figurative; cf. high road n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road great road1614 high road1620 main road1741 highway1837 traffic artery1845 trunk road1848 main-way1862 arterial road1886 primary roada1903 route1912 arterial1920 major road1930 spine road1961 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket i. 27 You can not stirre a foot in the great Road to the Citie of Hell, Pluto's Court, but you meet sinnes in throngs. 1622 L. Digges tr. G. de Céspedes y Meneses Gerardo i. ii. 121 In all that way (as being indeed no great Roade) they met not a creature. 1644 J. Howell Englands Teares 13 The Spanish Mule, who having by accident gone out of the great road, and carried her Rider thorow a by-path. 1726 New-Eng. Courant 5 Feb. 2/2 A Tract of Land in Watertown, lying upon the great Road leading from Watertown to Cambridge. 1772 T. Simes Mil. Guide (1781) 12 The heavy artillery in general keeps the great road. 1805 W. Maclure European Jrnl. (1988) 14 July 25 All the taverns since we left Moulins have been neat and clean, and much superior to anything on the great roads of France. a1837 E. D. Griffin Serm. (1844) v. 28/2 It is the great road to perdition: or if the gate of hell is shut by the grace of God, it is the great road to darkness, temptation, and distress. 1906 J. W. Fortescue Hist. Brit. Army IV. xii. x. 253 The principal bridges were those of Pont-à-Marque on the great road to Paris, and Pont-à-Tressin on the road from Tournai to Lille. 1998 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 9 July t2 When Germantown Avenue was The Great Road through Germantown, the reputation of its colonial craftsmen was unparalled [sic] in the New World. < as lemmas |
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