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ROADWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("roadway" is a kind of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roadway"):
carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)
Context examples:
Small sounds carried far; domestic sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the rumour of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Compared to children living more than half a mile from a major roadway, children living from roughly 164 feet to .3 miles from a major roadway were twice as likely to have failed at least one screen of the communications domain.
(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)
Alleyne stood still in the roadway for a few minutes reflecting upon what he should do.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dashing at the black man, he smote at him with such good will that the other let his knife tinkle into the roadway, and hopped howling to a safer distance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How he came there, I know not, but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command, and looking towards the sound, saw him stand in the roadway.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Here and there by the wayside stood little knots of wattle-and-daub huts with shock-haired laborers lounging by the doors and red-cheeked children sprawling in the roadway.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master's yard.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Looking round, there was the old dame down upon the roadway, with her red whimple flying on the breeze, while the two rogues, black and white, stooped over her, wresting away from her the penny and such other poor trifles as were worth the taking.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
