Vocabulary List Number 410 v.0.3 with 32 entries made for 4 definitions, 1 synonym and 27 examples in 3 chapters. Updated at June 30, 2026.
1. Main Definition
- Cambridge: road |n| a long, hard surface built for vehicles to travel along. (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- Google IA: road 1 |n| a prepared path, route, or surface designed for the travel of people, animals,
or vehicles between different locations. (From Google IA. June 28, 2026.) - Google IA: road 2 |n| a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed, paved, gravel, or dirt surface specifically built for motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. (From Google IA. June 29, 2026.)
2. Examples
- "There's a coffee shop on the other side of the road." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "Most road accidents are caused by people driving too fast." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "There's a coffee shop on the other side of the road." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "After two days on the road, they reached the coast." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "The car skidded off the road, hit a tree and overturned." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "New pedestrian pathways are being built alongside the road." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "I bent down and picked up coins lying on the road." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "Snow and ice have left many roads treacherous, and motorists are warned to drive slowly." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "Wintry conditions are making roads hazardous for drivers in the northeast of England." (From Cambridge Dictionary. June 29, 2026.)
- "The working plans included construction of forest access roads at fairly high labour cost." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "It remains to be seen whether the more sociologically oriented sociolinguists, which this book in a way represents, will finally take that road."(From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "Also, forgotten paths and roads may have left strips of compacted soil, which can last a long time." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city and surrounding countryside." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "All these systems required the construction of roads and the deployment of timber lorries." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "They include structural adjustment reforms, road sector reform, banking sector reform, agricultural sector reform, land sector reform, and tax reform." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "One familiar debate concerns the contrasting situations of rail and road safety." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "In the interests of safety, the road was enlarged on both sides to create a hard shoulder." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "Long-term historical change, however, should not be treated in terms of routes, incentives and destinations, with their implicit accompaniment of cul-de-sacs, diversions, and road blocks." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "After calculating road construction cost in terms of $/m3, the sum of road construction and skidding costs for different road densities are determined." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "His anecdotes lighten the tone of what might be considered more turgid information on rail and road construction, flight paths, plane types and federal regulation." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "The road to understanding continues to reward the persistent investigator." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "More than twothirds had been labourers of one sort or another, on farms, docks, roads, or unemployed." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "In addition, policymakers should act conservatively on proposals for rapid land development in the mangroves, including road construction." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.)
- "We started down the dirt road towards the highway, travelling at perhaps eight miles per hour." (From Cambridge Corpus. June 29, 2026.
- arterial road / arterial thoroughfare |n| a high-capacity urban road that sits below highways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to highways or expressways, and between urban hubs at a relatively high level of service. Therefore, many arteries are limited-access roads or feature restrictions on private access. Because of their relatively high accessibility, many major roads face large amounts of land use and urban development, making them significant urban places. (From Wikipedia. June 30, 2026.)
- arterial road |n|
- "It was bought by one of his predecessors with the idea of incorporating it in an arterial road." (From the Cambridge English Corpus. June 30, 2026.)
- asphalt road |n|
- "An asphalt road network connects the larger population centers." (From the Cambridge English Corpus. June 30, 2026.)
- bumpy road |n|
- "Hiking in the energy landscape in sequence space : a bumpy road to good folders." (From the Cambridge English Corpus. June 30, 2026.)
- cul-de-sac|n|
- dirt path |n|
- highway |n|
- path|n|
- route |n|
- street |n|
- pathway
- traffic
- driver
- motorist
- pedestrian










