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roadway

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ/

Definition of roadway

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A way used as a road.
    “On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick.”
    “It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.”
    “Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.”
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noun

  1. A way used as a road.
    “On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick.”
    “It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.”
    “Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.”
  2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
  3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

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Etymology

From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".

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