ROAD Synonyms

• a line of approach

• a wide street or thoroughfare

• a wide street or thoroughfare

• a side road little traveled (as in the countryside)

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• a major road for any form of motor transport

• a narrow way or road

• a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

• the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel

• the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction

• a situation offering opportunities

• people living or working on the same street

• a public road from one place to another

• (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

• an expressway on which tolls are collected

• used of an opponent's ground

• from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)

• from one's possession

• out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)

• out of existence

• at a distance in space or time

• indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily

• so as to be removed or gotten rid of

• freely or at will

• in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)

• in a different direction

• in reserve; not for immediate use

• not present; having left

• (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter