Synonyms for road
roʊdroad

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

1. road

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. road

   Synonyms:
   public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway, path

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.8 / 6 votes

1. road, routenoun

   an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

   Synonyms:
   route, itinerary, path

2. roadnoun

   a way or means to achieve something

   "the road to fame"

   Synonyms:
   route

Matched Categories

1. • Means
   • Way

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   path, way, lane, street, route, course, pathway, track, TRAIL, highway, thoroughfare, highroad

2. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   roadstead, anchorage

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1. roadnoun

   Synonyms:
   thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane, passage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad, causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, impasse

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1. List of paraphrases for "road":

   highway, roads, route, path, sheet, on-road, way, roadway, chemin, heron, highways, estrada, traffic, avenue, routier, carretera, routes, dao, track, journey, straße, street, leaf, roadways, hwy, carriageway, course, direction, strada

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ROAD

   Synonyms:
   Renoprotection of Optimal Antiproteinuric Doses

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1. Guyo Galicha Iyya:

   For example, it is 700 kilometers (435 miles) from Iliret to Marsabit town, on a very bad road, and 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Loiyangalani to the head office, with public transport charging up to 2,000 shillings ($22) one way.

2. Hamza Fetuga:

   I feel overwhelmed. I have a lot of ideas they could potentially implement down the road too.

3. Rick Meckler:

   The Fed rate increases, the ECB's decision to end its bond buying program, it suggests higher rates down the road, for the most part it's a positive because they feel the economy is strong enough to handle that.

4. Michael McDowell:

   The rhythm is different at Road America than at a Watkins Glen or a Sonoma or a place like that, the layout in general has elements that are low speed and then elements that are really high speed, where Watkins Glen is just really high speed and Sonoma is really low speed. This has got a mix of both.

5. Buddha:

   There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.