road Definition

road
noun

1. An open way, usually specially surfaced or paved, for people, vehicles or animals to travel on from one place to another. Also as adj.

Example: road traffic
Thesaurus: route, street, avenue, boulevard, drive, lane, path, highway, freeway, thoroughfare.
2. A route or course.

Example: the road to ruin
3. naut.
A relatively sheltered area of water near the shore where ships may be anchored.
Form: roads (usually)
Form: roadstead (also)
(chiefly US)
4. A railway.
5. A passage in a mine.

Derivative: roadless
adj

Idiom: be in someone's or something's road (get in someone's or something's road)

colloq
To obstruct or hinder them or it.
Example: His attitude towards women got in the road of his promotion

Idiom: hit the road

To leave; to depart.

Idiom: one for the road

A final, usually alcoholic, drink before leaving.

Idiom: on the road

Travelling from place to place, especially as a commercial traveller, a musician on tour or a tramp.

Idiom: take the road

To depart; to set off.

Idiom: take to the road

To become a tramp.

To set off for or travel to somewhere.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon rad, related to ride.