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roadmaker

roadmaker noun: someone who or something that builds roads.

Noun

roadmaker (plural roadmakers)

  1. Someone who or something that builds roads.
    • The really acute roadmaker will be as shy of having clay in the interstices of his stone work as the vigilant mason is of having clay in a brick or stone wall.1891, Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt, A Move for Better Roads, page 115
    • In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker.1901, Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York, page 129
  2. (figuratively) An innovator; a trailblazer; a pioneer.
    • In what way and to what extent may Gresham be looked upon as a roadmaker?1925, Frank Reyner Salter, Sir Thomas Gresham (1518-1579), page 166
    • Who have been the roadmakers? The men and women who, by their intellect or character or example ... have prepared the way for human progress. They are the pioneers.1925, The Scottish Educational Journal - Volume 8, page 41

Examples of roadmaker in a sentence

  • Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker.1912, Andrew Broder, “Address”, in Sessional Papers of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, volume 44, number 5, page 10:
  • The roadmaker has his dreams and visions as well as the poet, and he expresses them in broken stones.1918, Thomas Tiplady, The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battlefront, page 30:
  • Among other troublesome questions, it is difficult to make up your mind exactly what can be the qualities which distinguish a "roadmaker" from an ordinary writer.1927, “Reviews: Thomas Carlyle, by Mary Agnes Hamilton”, in Education Outlook, volume 79, page 297:

Forms of roadmaker

pluralroadmakers

Origin of roadmaker

From road + maker.

Questions about roadmaker

What does roadmaker mean?
Roadmaker means someone who or something that builds roads.
How do you use roadmaker in a sentence?
Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker.
What part of speech is roadmaker?
Roadmaker is a noun.
What is the plural of roadmaker?
The plural of roadmaker is roadmakers.

Words near roadmaker in the dictionary

  1. roadlets
  2. Roadley
  3. Roadleys
  4. roadlike
  5. roadline
  6. roadmaker
  7. roadmakers
  8. roadmaking
  9. roadman
  10. roadmap
  11. roadmapped

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