"back road" meaning in English

See back road in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈbæk ˌɹəʊd/ [UK], /ˈbæk ˌɹoʊd/ [US] Forms: back roads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back road (plural back roads)
  1. A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads. Categories (topical): Roads Translations (a secondary road, a little used road): sivutie (Finnish), Nebenstraße [feminine] (German), Seitenstraße [feminine] (German), hliðarvegur [masculine] (Icelandic), vegur fjarri alfaraleið [masculine] (Icelandic)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for back road meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back roads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "back road (plural back roads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Roads",
          "orig": "en:Roads",
          "parents": [
            "Road transport",
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a back road. It was very scenic, but I had to keep the speed down."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Orange Crush”, in Green",
          "text": "I knew it all. I knew every back road and every truck stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads."
      ],
      "id": "en-back_road-en-noun-q1K~~dfH",
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
          "word": "sivutie"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Nebenstraße"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Seitenstraße"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hliðarvegur"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vegur fjarri alfaraleið"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæk ˌɹəʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæk ˌɹoʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back road"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "back roads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "back road (plural back roads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Roads"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a back road. It was very scenic, but I had to keep the speed down."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Orange Crush”, in Green",
          "text": "I knew it all. I knew every back road and every truck stop.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæk ˌɹəʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæk ˌɹoʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
      "word": "sivutie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Nebenstraße"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Seitenstraße"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hliðarvegur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a secondary road, a little used road",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vegur fjarri alfaraleið"
    }
  ],
  "word": "back road"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.