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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

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. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

   It is also possible that a comet will hit planet Earth, (But) I don't believe that any sensible European bureaucrat or politician will go down that road.

2. Donald Trump:

   Joe Hagin has been a huge asset to my administration. He planned and executed the longest and one of the most historic foreign trips ever made by a president, and he did it all perfectly. We will miss him in the office and even more on the road. I am thankful for his remarkable service to our great country.

3. Amit Dror:

   We will be much better than last year, initially, we are looking at the near future to generate sales with large corporations in defense, aerospace, automotive and healthcare and further down the road ... consumer products.

4. Lee Stiles:

   Spanish and Morocco growers have also decided to sell to Europe instead to avoid the costs of a four-day road trip to Britain, additional fuels costs, customs fees, red tape and queues at the border.

5. James Harden:

   But we got to live with what we’re dealt with, and that’s home games we’ve got to figure ways and even road games, just because Ky’s on the road with us doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy for us as well. So we’ve got to mesh and we’ve got to find ways to win games each individual time we play.