road
/rəʊd
/- New roads were constructed as wide boulevards to prevent fires from spreading from one side of the street to the other.
- Consequently, in the absence of a good public transport system, the vehicles on Delhi's roads have swollen to around 2.7 million.
- Training horses to accept traffic, road works and roadside obstacles is more important than ever in these days of litigation and the increasing number of vehicles on the roads.
Synonyms
- Two projectors set up in front of a crumbling assemblage of wood shacks beamed dual images of the gangs onto a ten-story housing project as the inhabitants of the barrio formed a crowd in the middle of the road.
- Two more black cars were parked, blocking the road in front of Zoe.
- Understanding this can aid teachers and learners as they make sense of interpersonal conflict on the road to forming successful groups.
- Even though her storyline - which follows João on the road to stardom, with several stopovers in prison - can seem underdeveloped, Ramos is always charismatic.
- A gang of petty thieves make a big score on an armored van, but instead of landing on easy street, they find themselves on the road to frustration.
- He is the great model of the free artist who follows his own, unimproved road.
- The bottom line to this week's two-step is that Zoellick and Lamy have a long road to walk before they get back to Doha.
- Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it.
Synonyms
Phrases
down the road
the end of the road
hit the road
in the (or one's) road
one for the road
on the road
out of the (or one's) road
a road to nowhere
take to the road (or take the road)
Derivatives
roadless
- The Clinton administration elicited an outpouring of public support when it proposed a ban on roadbuilding, logging, and other destructive activities on 58.5 million roadless acres of national forest.
- Meanwhile, the overwhelming public support for protecting the last remaining Tongass roadless areas has been tossed out the window.
- More than a million public comments were filed in support of the roadless rule, and more than 90 percent of the public comments on the snowmobile issue supported a ban.
Origin
Old English rād 'journey on horseback', 'foray'; of Germanic origin; related to the verb ride.
In Old English road meant ‘a journey on horseback’, and the word is related to ride. The sense of ‘a wide track to travel on’, the equivalent of street, did not appear until the end of the 16th century. The middle of the road has been the place for moderate views since the 1890s, originally in the context of US politics. The phrase has referred to easy-listening music since the late 1950s. The road less travelled to refer to an unconventional or unusual course of action comes from the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ (1916) by Robert Frost: ‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less travelled by, /And that has made all the difference’. See also hell, rage