Definitions for road

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road road

Spelling: [rohd]

IPA: /roʊd/

Road is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in road (ador).

Definitions for road

noun

1. a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
2. a way or course:
3. a railroad.
4. Often, roads. Also called roadstead. Nautical. a partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
5. Mining. any tunnel in a mine used for hauling.
6. the road, the places, usually outside of New York City, at which theatrical companies on tour generally give performances.

Idioms

1. burn up the road, Slang. to drive or move very fast.
2. down the road, in the future:
3. hit the road, Slang. to begin or resume traveling:
4. one for the road, a final alcoholic drink taken just before departing from a party, tavern, or the like.
5. on the road, traveling, especially as a sales representative. on tour, as a theatrical company: started; under way:
6. take to the road, to begin a journey or tour. Also, take the road.

Origin of road

before 900; Middle English rode, earlier rade, Old English rād a riding, journey on horseback, akin to rīdan to ride

Examples for road

All the roads into Iraqi Kurdistan and toward Baghdad are closed and now the road toward Syria is also blocked.

And she stood alert at the side of the road, looking at Andrew like a queen.

A bell had been tinkling nearer and nearer on the road ahead.

For many Republicans presidential hopefuls, the road to the nomination passes through the Hawkeye State.

Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.

When they met Fish in the road they stepped aside and said "Good morning, sir."

Is this just a ploy by the Islamic State—or the beginning of the road to retaking Mosul?

"You are rather inscrutable," he said, as they resumed the road.

One bishop paid with his life when his car was run off the road.

The Surveyor-General and a party accompanied us for some distance along the road.