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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A road, especially the part over which vehicles travel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A highway; a road; particularly, the part of a road used by horses, carriages, etc.; the road-bed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A road; especially, the part traveled by vehicles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A way used as a road.
  • noun The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
  • noun The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel

Etymologies

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From road + way.

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