Word.ws English Dictionary

fosseway

fosseway noun: a Roman military road built with a fosse or ditch on either side for drainage and defense purposes.

Noun

fosseway (plural fosseways)

  1. (Ancient-Rome) A Roman military road built with a fosse or ditch on either side for drainage and defense purposes.

Forms of fosseway

pluralfosseways

Origin of fosseway

From fosse + way.

Questions about fosseway

What does fosseway mean?
Fosseway means a Roman military road built with a fosse or ditch on either side for drainage and defense purposes.
What part of speech is fosseway?
Fosseway is a noun.
What is the plural of fosseway?
The plural of fosseway is fosseways.

Words near fosseway in the dictionary

  1. fossette
  2. fossettes
  3. fossettid
  4. fossettids
  5. Fossetts
  6. fosseway
  7. fosseways
  8. Fossey
  9. Fosseys
  10. fossick
  11. fossicked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fosseway (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fosseway.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fosseway. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.