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on the road

on the road prepositional phrase: travelling, away from home.

Prepositional phrase

  1. travelling, away from home.
    • Some salesmen spend a lot of time on the road.
  2. (Canada, US) At the venue of an opposing team or competitor.
    Synonyms:
    away
  3. Of a purchased vehicle: including everything required in order to start driving, such as registration and taxes.
  4. (UK, slang) Not in prison.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, road.

on the road meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

on the road in Urdu

سر راہ

on the road in Malayalam

on tour, touring, travelling
സഞ്ചരിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, ദേശസഞ്ചാരം ചെയ്യുന്ന, അവചാരണ, ആധ്വനിക, സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന, പര്യടനത്തിലേർപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of on the road

Questions about on the road

What does on the road mean?
On the road means travelling, away from home.
What is on the road in Urdu?
On the road in Urdu is سر راہ. See On the road meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is on the road?
On the road is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the road in the dictionary

  1. on the right foot
  2. on the right side of history
  3. on the right track
  4. on the rise
  5. on the rivet
  6. on the road
  7. on the rob
  8. on the rocks
  9. on the ropes
  10. on the run
  11. on the safe side

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: on the road (page history and authors); on the road (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on the road (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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