"ring road" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-ring road.ogg [Australia] Forms: ring roads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ring road (plural ring roads)
  1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, UK) A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Categories (topical): Roads Synonyms: beltway [US], orbital motorway Translations (highway): околовръстен път (okolovrǎsten pǎt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ronda [feminine] (Catalan), 環路 (Chinese Mandarin), 环路 (huánlù) (Chinese Mandarin), 繞城公路 (Chinese Mandarin), 绕城公路 (ràochéng gōnglù) (Chinese Mandarin), ring [masculine] (Dutch), ringweg [masculine] (Dutch), kehätie (Finnish), périphérique [masculine] (French), ring [masculine] (French), Ringstraße [feminine] (German), Umgehungsstraße [feminine] (German), περιφερειακός δρόμος (perifereiakós drómos) [masculine] (Greek), körgyűrű (Hungarian), jalan lingkar (Indonesian), cuarbhóthar [masculine] (Irish), bóthar cuarach [masculine] (Irish), circonvallazione [feminine] (Italian), 순환선 (sunhwanseon) (alt: 循環線) (Korean), lankstas (Lithuanian), обиколница (obikolnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), jalan lingkaran (Malay), ringvei [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ringvei [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), obwodnica [feminine] (Polish), anel rodoviário [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), contorno [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), circular [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), circunvalação [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), кольцева́я доро́га (kolʹcevája doróga) [feminine] (Russian), окружна́я доро́га (okružnája doróga) [feminine] (Russian), кольцева́я (kolʹcevája) [feminine] (Russian), окружна́я (okružnája) [feminine] (Russian), circunvalación [feminine] (Spanish), ringväg [common-gender] (Swedish), ringled [common-gender] (Swedish), кільцева́ доро́га (kilʹcevá doróha) [feminine] (Ukrainian), кільцева́ (kilʹcevá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), cylchffordd [feminine] (Welsh)

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          "sense": "highway",
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          "roman": "perifereiakós drómos",
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          "sense": "highway",
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          "sense": "highway",
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "highway",
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          "word": "bóthar cuarach"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "highway",
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          "sense": "highway",
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          "sense": "highway",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "highway",
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          "word": "obwodnica"
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          "sense": "highway",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "anel rodoviário"
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          "sense": "highway",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highway",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "highway",
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          "sense": "highway",
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            "feminine"
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      "alt": "循環線",
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      "lang": "Korean",
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      "sense": "highway",
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      "sense": "highway",
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "highway",
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        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "circunvalação"
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      "sense": "highway",
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        "feminine"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolʹcevája",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "кольцева́я"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "okružnája",
      "sense": "highway",
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      "word": "окружна́я"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ringled"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kilʹcevá doróha",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кільцева́ доро́га"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kilʹcevá",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кільцева́"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "highway",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cylchffordd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ring road"
}

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