Word.ws English Dictionary

roadsteads

roadsteads is the plural of roadstead.

Meaning of roadstead

Noun

roadstead (plural roadsteads)

  1. A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour.
    • The shores of Protection island form on its south side, which is about two miles long, a most excellent roadstead, and a channel into port Discovery, near 2 miles wide on either side […]1798, George Vancouver, chapter V, in A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, volume I, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 248
    Synonyms:
    road, roads

Questions about roadsteads

What is roadsteads the plural of?
Roadsteads is the plural of roadstead.

Words near roadsteads in the dictionary

  1. roadsman
  2. roadsmen
  3. roadspray
  4. roadspreading
  5. roadstead
  6. roadsteads
  7. roadster
  8. roadsters
  9. roadstone
  10. roadstones
  11. roadsweeper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: roadsteads (page history and authors); roadstead (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: “roadsteads.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/roadsteads. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.