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. Warde Manuel:

   Were talking that far away unless something changes for both of us, we have been in conversations about looking down the road to add another series of games to keep the rivalry moving forward.

2. Benoit Coeure:

   Down the road we might find that there are gaps or inconsistencies that would require a prolonged discussion by regulators on how to do it differently, authorities are not going to let any such projects happen before we have answers to our questions and before we have the right regulatory framework.

3. State John Kerry:

   I look forward to these meetings as an opportunity to try to pull people back from a precipice and try to move down a road, because everybody understands that in the end, it requires a political solution, it requires two states living side-by-side in peace with two peoples appropriately honored with their countries, and with security.

4. Secretary Powell:

   I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.

5. Wesley D'Amico:

   No road takes you to your dreams, it just shows the direction, but you decide to go or stay where you are.