roadway
US/ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ/
roadway noun: a way used as a road.
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Noun
roadway (plural roadways)
- A way used as a road.
- On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick.1958 May, W. J. South and L. Hyland, “Limerick as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, pages 297-298
- It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.2023 April 20, Gregory Wallace, “Roadway deaths level off after pandemic spike, but remain high”, in CNN
- The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
- The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.
roadway meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Gujarati
roadway in Tamil
- way used as road
- ரோடு rōṭu, சாலை cālai
roadway in Urdu
- روڈ وے
roadway in Kannada
- ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ
roadway in Gujarati
- રોડવે
More languagesFewer languages
- roadway in Indonesian
- jalur
Examples of roadway in a sentence
- He used a chainsaw to cut through the fallen tree on the roadway.
- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
- The enemy machine guns raked the roadway.
Forms of roadway
| plural | roadways |
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Origin of roadway
From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".
Questions about roadway
- What does roadway mean?
- Roadway means a way used as a road.
- What is roadway in Tamil?
- Roadway in Tamil is ரோடு (rōṭu), சாலை (cālai). See Roadway meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is roadway?
- Roadway is a noun.
- How do you pronounce roadway?
- Roadway is pronounced /ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ/ (US).
- What is the plural of roadway?
- The plural of roadway is roadways.
Words near roadway in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roadway (page history and authors); roadway (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadway (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roadway (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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