"roadworn" meaning in All languages combined

See roadworn on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more roadworn [comparative], most roadworn [superlative]
Etymology: road + worn Etymology templates: {{compound|en|road|worn}} road + worn Head templates: {{en-adj}} roadworn (comparative more roadworn, superlative most roadworn)
  1. Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion. Related terms: wayworn
    Sense id: en-roadworn-en-adj-oMKov8lZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for roadworn meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "road",
        "3": "worn"
      },
      "expansion": "road + worn",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "road + worn",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more roadworn",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most roadworn",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "roadworn (comparative more roadworn, superlative most roadworn)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains, Bantam Spectra, page 10",
          "text": "Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940, Singapore University Press, page 275",
          "text": "When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, page 192",
          "text": "He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion."
      ],
      "id": "en-roadworn-en-adj-oMKov8lZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "Worn out",
          "worn out"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "damaged",
          "damaged"
        ],
        [
          "depleted",
          "depleted"
        ],
        [
          "constant",
          "constant"
        ],
        [
          "prolonged",
          "prolonged"
        ],
        [
          "usage",
          "usage"
        ],
        [
          "exertion",
          "exertion"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wayworn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roadworn"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "road",
        "3": "worn"
      },
      "expansion": "road + worn",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "road + worn",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more roadworn",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most roadworn",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "roadworn (comparative more roadworn, superlative most roadworn)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "wayworn"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains, Bantam Spectra, page 10",
          "text": "Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940, Singapore University Press, page 275",
          "text": "When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, page 192",
          "text": "He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Worn out",
          "worn out"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "damaged",
          "damaged"
        ],
        [
          "depleted",
          "depleted"
        ],
        [
          "constant",
          "constant"
        ],
        [
          "prolonged",
          "prolonged"
        ],
        [
          "usage",
          "usage"
        ],
        [
          "exertion",
          "exertion"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roadworn"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.