► road a specially prepared hard surface for cars, buses, bicycles, etc. to travel on: They live on a very busy road. My address is 4125 Pheasant Road.
► street a road in a town, with houses or stores on each side: What street do you live on?
► avenue a road in a town, often with trees on each side. Used especially in the names of roads: There are large houses on either side of the tree-lined avenue.
► boulevard a wide main road in a city. Used especially in the names of roads: The accident happened at an intersection on Jackson Boulevard.
► alley a narrow street or passage between buildings: He parked his car in the alley behind the building.
► main street a road in the middle of a town where many stores, offices, etc. are: The parade went right down the town’s main street.
► main road a large road with smaller roads that lead off it: We turned off the main road and headed toward the farmhouse.
► highway a very wide road for traveling fast over long distances: Traffic on the highway was backed up for miles after the accident.
► freeway/expressway a very wide road in a city or between cities, on which cars can travel very fast without stopping: She was driving along the freeway at 65 miles per hour.
► toll road/turnpike a road that you pay to use: We had to stop at the booth to pay for the toll road.
► lane one of the parts that a wide road is divided into so that people can drive along next to each other: The freeway has three lanes in each direction.