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The Meaning of road
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(n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.
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(n.) An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
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(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
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(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
Synonyms
Public way
,
highway
,
route
,
thoroughfare
,
course
,
pathway
,
path.
Homophones
rhoad
,
rhode
,
rode
,
roed
,
rohde
Rhymes
abode
,
anode
,
bestowed
,
bestrode
,
blowed
,
boatload
,
bode
,
bowed
,
brode
,
busload
,
carload
,
caseload
,
cathode
,
coad
,
code
,
coed
,
commode
,
corrode
,
crossroad
,
crowed
,
decode
,
diode
,
elbowed
,
encode
,
episode
,
erode
,
explode
,
flowed
,
forebode
,
goad
,
goedde
,
goede
,
grode
,
implode
,
inroad
,
kanode
,
knode
,
knowed
,
load
,
lode
,
m-code
,
methode
,
microcode
,
moad
,
mode
,
mowed
,
nematode
,
node
,
ode
,
out-mode
,
outmode
,
overflowed
,
overload
,
overrode
,
owed
,
payload
,
railroad
,
reload
,
rhoad
,
rhode
,
rode
,
roed
,
rohde
,
shipload
,
shoad
,
showed
,
shrode
,
slowed
,
snowed
,
sowed
,
spode
,
stowed
,
strode
,
thode
,
toad
,
towed
,
truckload
,
unbowed
,
unload
,
workload