stroad
/stɹəud/
stroad noun: a combination of a street and a road that is too wide and fast to be friendly to pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways to move cars efficiently.
Noun
stroad (plural stroads)
- A combination of a street and a road that is too wide and fast to be friendly to pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways to move cars efficiently.
- While Marohn came up with the neologism partly in a spirit of fun, he considers stroads a deadly serious problem. Not only are they dangerous and aesthetically repugnant, he argues that they are economically destructive as well.2014 January 7, Sarah Goodyear, “Defining the Worst Type of Street Design”, in CityLab, Bloomberg
- The federal government pitched in $11.5 million for this stroad, so it requires this step before construction begins.2017 June 30, David Sachs, “DPW Moves Forward With Making Quebec Street a Wide, Dangerous Stroad Instead of Prioritizing People Over Cars”, in Streetsblog Denver
Examples of stroad in a sentence
- Roads I ride on: […] Very frequently, a four lane suburban stroad with 30,000 to 40,000 cars per day. 12 foot lanes.2019 January 27, Frank Krygowski, “AG: Lit Crit wanted”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), message-ID <q2lvot$tda$1@dont-email.me>:
- A stroad has the driveways, intersections, and crosswalks (sometimes!) of a street, but the higher speed-limit of a road, perhaps 45 mph (70 kph) or more.2024, Jonathan Maskit, Bicycle, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
Forms of stroad
| plural | stroads |
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Origin of stroad
Blend of street + road. Coined by American engineer and author Charles Marohn in 2011.
Words formed from stroad
Words that rhyme with stroad
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about stroad
- What does stroad mean?
- Stroad means a combination of a street and a road that is too wide and fast to be friendly to pedestrians while having too many intersections and driveways to move cars efficiently.
- How do you use stroad in a sentence?
- Roads I ride on: […] Very frequently, a four lane suburban stroad with 30,000 to 40,000 cars per day. 12 foot lanes.
- What part of speech is stroad?
- Stroad is a noun.
- How do you pronounce stroad?
- Stroad is pronounced /stɹəud/.
- What is the plural of stroad?
- The plural of stroad is stroads.
Words near stroad in the dictionary
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