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ON THE ROAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travelling about
Example:
they lost all their games on the road
Synonyms:
on the road; on tour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("on the road" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Context examples:
Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
There were six of us, and we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Chinese company has unveiled a driverless bus-train hybrid that uses white lines painted on the road to navigate.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
Then, if storms form on the road over the ocean or when entering Chile, the particles do not arrive.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
I thank you, my friend, for your all too-flattering estimate, but yet I fear that I am but a little way on the road I would travel.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The pressing anxieties of thought, which prevented her from noticing anything before her, when once beyond the neighbourhood of Woodston, saved her at the same time from watching her progress; and though no object on the road could engage a moment's attention, she found no stage of it tedious.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,” said she; “pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
We had hardly sunk from view when the man flew past us on the road.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
