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roads

noun

plural of road
1
as in highways
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel I think we should take one of the less congested roads

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2
as in railroads
a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel the railway companies are continually repairing their roads

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Recent Examples of roads Still, the real test comes when these vehicles deal with everything ordinary roads throw at them. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Diesel long dictated the roads, but electric heavy transport is taking charge. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026 Communities near wildlife areas often rely on motorcycles for transport, especially where roads are poor and alternatives are limited. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 In a wartorn country where air travel is too perilous to even consider, the roads are the obvious option, but are jammed, precarious, and cursed with long, torturous border queues. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 Cycling advocates say that removing the lanes will harm not only bicyclists, but also pedestrians and drivers who have to navigate the roads alongside them. — Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2026 Yemeni government forces have launched airstrikes targeting Houthi reinforcements west of Taiz, several residents of Mokha said, and the Yemeni government military has urged civilians to avoid roads between Taiz and Mokha. — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026 Now workers are crushing concrete and twisted metal into roads, shelter floors, and spaces for community kitchens. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 Mokha resident Amin al-Mohammdi said roads from the west coast leading to Mokha were closed and shops were shuttered. — Ahmed Al-Haj, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roads
  1. highways
  2. railroads
  3. streets
  4. railways
  5. thoroughfares
  6. freeways
  7. routes
  8. expressways
Noun
  • South Florida motorists routinely saw police officers hurtling along highways at extraordinary speeds without lights, sirens or any apparent emergency.
    — Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Just as interstate highways need to be wider and smoother than typical country roads, railroad tracks that handle faster trains require more robust engineering and safety features than those that handle slow-moving freight.
    — Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • Industries like the railroads, finance, steel, coal, and oil.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Proponents of the current plan, however, argue the initial schedule will prove that there’s demand for the service, and then the railroads can expand their options later.
    — Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of railroads
Noun
  • AmaWaterways brings guests front row to an exclusive jazz performance in the streets here, where the acoustics haven’t changed in 400 years.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Elsewhere, Llínas films the modern-day streets, statues, and buildings where Borges once lived and visited, accompanied by casual pontifications on the author’s values and habits.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Uganda then had a large population of Indian immigrants, who had been brought over by the British at the end of the nineteenth century to help construct railways, and who eventually established more economic autonomy and power than Black Ugandans.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
  • These have included arson, high-profile hacks, GPS jamming as well as sabotage actions against key infrastructure, including undersea communication cables, logistics centers and railways.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of railways
Noun
  • Two years later, Wong became one of the key leaders of the city’s Umbrella Movement protests that rallied thousands of predominantly young people to the streets to call for greater democracy by blocking major thoroughfares for 79 straight days.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Kitchens were structured for high throughput and delivery vehicles lined up on the other side of the building to take finished meals and speed them along critical thoroughfares for timely and low-cost delivery.
    — George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • Broadcom paid its former landlord, PRP Real Assets, $325 million for the 660,000-square-foot research campus near the junction of the 5 and 405 freeways in one of the largest office sales in Southern California in recent years.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Not to mention that traffic on the 101 and 405 freeways demonstrates, without a shadow of a doubt, that people are indeed in their cars on weekends as well.
    — Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of freeways
Noun
  • Interceptions were more frequent than in previous training camps, but, like the one with Moore, some involved the new wideouts fine-tuning their routes.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The men blocked routes to the port, where ferries connect England to France.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of routes
Noun
  • Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The firm noted that major bridges like the Donghai Bridge and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, as well as regional expressways, have reopened with standard speed limits restored.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of expressways

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“Roads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roads. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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