Found 4 items, similar to Road.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: road
jalan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: road
jalan, jalanan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: road
road
adj 1: taking place over public roads;
“road racing” [syn:
road(a)]
[ant:
cross-country]
2: working for a short time in different places;
“itinerant
laborers”;
“a road show”;
“traveling salesman”;
“touring
company” [syn:
itinerant,
touring,
traveling]
road
n 1: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
[syn:
route]
2: a way or means to achieve something;
“the road to fame”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Road
Road
\Road\ (r[=o]), n. [AS. r[=a]d a riding, that on which one
rides or travels, a road, fr. r[=i]dan to ride. See
Ride,
and cf.
Raid.]
1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.]
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With easy roads he came to Leicester. --Shak.
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2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. 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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The most villainous house in all the London road.
--Shak.
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Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a
generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.
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4. [Possibly akin to Icel. rei[eth]i the rigging of a ship,
E. ready.] A place where ships may ride at anchor at some
distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the
plural; as, Hampton Roads. --Shak.
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Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners,
For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. --Spenser.
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On the road, or
Uponthe road, traveling or passing over a
road; coming or going; traveling; on the way.
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My hat and wig will soon be here,
They are upon the road. --Cowper.
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Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of
the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a
humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.]
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The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly
called. --The century.
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Road book, a guidebook in respect to roads and distances.
road kill See
roadkill in the vocabulary.
Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers,
for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and
compact. -- often driven by steam.
Road runner (Zo["o]l.), the chaparral cock.
Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on
common roads.
To go on the road, to engage in the business of a
commercial traveler. [Colloq.]
To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.
To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the
highways.
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Syn: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage;
course. See
Way.
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