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backroad

backroad is the alternative spelling of back road.

Meaning of back road

Noun

back road (plural back roads)

  1. A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads.
    • There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a back road. It was very scenic, but I had to keep the speed down.

Forms of backroad

pluralbackroads

Questions about backroad

What is backroad the alternative spelling of?
Backroad is the alternative spelling of back road.

Words near backroad in the dictionary

  1. backride
  2. backrider
  3. backriders
  4. backrides
  5. backriding
  6. backroad
  7. backroads
  8. backrode
  9. backroll
  10. backrolled
  11. backrolling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backroad (page history and authors); back road (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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