road

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. , acquired from 🇨🇬, and West Frisian (paved trail/road, driveway).

The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late&mdash;Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar&mdash;and probably arose through reinterpretation of  "a way for riding on" as saying "way" twice, in other words as a tautological compound.

Noun

 * 1) A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
 * 2)  Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
 * 3)  A physical way or route.
 * 4)  A path chosen, as in life or career.
 * 5) An underground tunnel in a mine.
 * 6)  A railway or  a single railway track.
 * 7)  The act of riding on horseback.
 * 8)  A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
 * 9)  A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
 * 10)  A journey, or stage of a journey.
 * 1) An underground tunnel in a mine.
 * 2)  A railway or  a single railway track.
 * 3)  The act of riding on horseback.
 * 4)  A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
 * 5)  A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
 * 6)  A journey, or stage of a journey.
 * 1)  The act of riding on horseback.
 * 2)  A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
 * 3)  A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
 * 4)  A journey, or stage of a journey.
 * 1)  A journey, or stage of a journey.
 * 1)  A journey, or stage of a journey.

Usage notes
Often used interchangeably with or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ), as in the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking, paved.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:road

Translations

 * Adyghe: гъогу
 * Afar: gita
 * Afrikaans:, ,
 * Ainu: ル
 * Akan: ɛkwan, kwan
 * Aklanon: daean
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: መንገድ
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: ʼintin
 * Arabic:, سِكَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: سكّة
 * Gulf Arabic: طِريج
 * Hijazi Arabic: طَريق
 * Iraqi Arabic: درب
 * Moroccan Arabic: طْريق
 * Archi: декъӏ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian:, drum, susachi
 * Assamese: বাট, আলি, ৰাস্তা
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: нух
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: юл
 * Basque:, errepide
 * Bau Bidayuh: oran
 * Baure: kaye
 * Belarusian: даро́га, шлях, пуць
 * Bengali: ,
 * Blackfoot: mohsoko
 * Bouyei: vdonl
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: доро́га
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: dalan
 * Central Melanau: jalan
 * Chamicuro: ajtini
 * Chechen: некъ
 * Cherokee: ᏅᏃᎯ
 * Chichewa: msewu
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 路, 道路
 * Dungan: лў, лўдо
 * Eastern Min: 墿, 道, 路
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Northern Min: 墿
 * Wu: 路, 道路
 * Cree: meskanaw
 * Crimean Tatar: yol
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: ки
 * Esperanto: ŝoseo,
 * Estonian:, maantee
 * Even: хотаран
 * Evenki: хокто
 * Farefare: sore
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გზა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὁδός, κέλευθος
 * Guaraní: ape, ape guasu, apehũ (paved with asphalt, lit. "black road")
 * Gujarati: માર્ગ
 * Haitian Creole: wout
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: dalan
 * Hiligaynon: dalan
 * Hindi:, , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Iban: jalai
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: strata,
 * Iranun: lalan
 * Irish:, slí
 * Isthmus Zapotec: neza
 * Istriot: veîa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Karelian: tie
 * Kashubian: darga
 * Kazakh:
 * Ket: ӄо’т
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kongo: nzila
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ڕێگە
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: ocanku
 * Lao:, ທາງ, , ຖນົນ
 * Latgalian: ceļš, saša
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:, šoseja
 * Lezgi: рехъ
 * Lingala: nzelá,, mofali
 * Lithuanian:, plentas
 * Low German:
 * Lü: ᦑᦱᧂ
 * Luhya: engila
 * Macedonian: пат, друм, улица
 * Maguindanao: lalan
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: റോഡ്
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᠵᡠᡤᡡᠨ, ᠣᠨ
 * Manx: raad
 * Maori:
 * Maranao: lalan
 * Marathi: रस्ता
 * Mehri: حورم
 * Moksha: ки
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: зам харгуй, ,
 * Moore: sore
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵖⴰⵔⴰⵙ, ⴰⴱⵔⵉⴷ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nanai: покто
 * Nepali: सडक
 * Ngarrindjeri: yarluke
 * Ngazidja Comorian: pare
 * Nivkh: тиф
 * Norman: route
 * Norn: goda, gøda
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Northern Ohlone: 'ín̄u'
 * Northern Sami: geaidnu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: veg
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: miikana, miikanan
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: пѫть, цѣста
 * Glagolitic: ⱂⱘⱅⱐ, ⱌⱑⱄⱅⰰ
 * Old Czech: cěsta
 * Old East Slavic: дорога, путь
 * Old English: weġ
 * Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰆𐰞
 * Oromo: karaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: یول
 * Pali: magga, patha
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: iwara
 * Plautdietsch: Wajch, Gauss
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Powhatan: mew
 * Punjabi:, ਰਸਤਾ
 * Quechua: ñan
 * Rapa Nui: ara
 * Red Gelao: xi⁴⁴
 * Romani: drom
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scots: gait, gate, ruid, road
 * Scottish Gaelic: rathad, slighe
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пу̑т, дру̏м, цѐста
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan: ,
 * Sinhalese: පාර
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droga
 * Upper Sorbian: dróha
 * Sotho:, seterata
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Sranan Tongo: pasi
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠞꠣꠍ꠆ꠔꠣ, ꠙꠕ
 * Tabasaran: рякъ
 * Tachawit:
 * Tagalog:, kalsada, kalye
 * Tajik:, ҷода
 * Talysh: ro
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: pʼį́ęna
 * Tarantino: strade
 * Tarifit: abrid
 * Tashelhit: ⴰⵖⴰⵔⴰⵙ
 * Tat: ra
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: lurón
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: ལམ་ཀ, ལམ
 * Tigrinya:
 * Tocharian A: ytār
 * Tocharian B: ytārye
 * Tok Pisin: rot
 * Tswana:
 * Tupinambá: pé, apé (s-)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: орук
 * Ukrainian:, , путь
 * Urdu: سَڑَک, راسْتَہ, جادَہ
 * Uyghur: يول
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: wȧg
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: wei
 * White Hmong: kev
 * Xhosa: lendlela
 * Yagnobi: рос
 * Yakut: суол
 * Yapese: woq
 * Yiddish: וועג, טראַקט
 * Zazaki: ray, rah
 * Zealandic: wegt, pad
 * Zhuang: loh, roen
 * Zulu:


 * Assamese: বাট
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: slí bheatha
 * Malay:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یول
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Zazaki: sop


 * Finnish: ,

Adjective

 * 1)  At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
 * 2)  Of or pertaining to a road bike.

Adjective

 * 1) amused, entertained