"roadway" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: roadways [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on". Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*rodeway}} Middle English *rodeway, {{af|en|road|way}} road + way Head templates: {{en-noun}} roadway (plural roadways)
  1. A way used as a road. Categories (topical): Roads Translations (way used as road): errepide (Basque), carretera [feminine] (Catalan), ajoväylä (Finnish), estrada [feminine] (Galician), estrada [feminine] (Portuguese), carretera [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-roadway-en-noun-q6AXkyD0 Disambiguation of Roads: 44 42 14 Disambiguation of 'way used as road': 64 22 14
  2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles. Categories (topical): Roads Translations (main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles): ryweg (Afrikaans), երթևեկելի մաս (ertʻewekeli mas) (Armenian), galtzada (Basque), платно (platno) [neuter] (Bulgarian), calçada [feminine] (Catalan), kørebane [common-gender] (Danish), rijbaan [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), veturejo (Esperanto), calçá (Extremaduran), chaussée [feminine] (French), calzada [feminine] (Galician), Fahrbahn [feminine] (German), Straße [feminine] (German), úttest (Hungarian), choseo (Ido), jalur (Indonesian), carreggiata [feminine] (Italian), коловоз (kolovoz) [masculine] (Macedonian), veibane [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kjørebane [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jezdnia [feminine] (Polish), faixa de rodagem [feminine] (Portuguese), проезжая часть (projezžaja častʹ) (Russian), kolnik [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), calzada [feminine] (Spanish), vägbana (Swedish), körbana (Swedish), yol şeridi (Turkish), yolun ortası (Turkish), проїзна́ части́на (projizná častýna) (Ukrainian), проїжджа частина (projiždža častyna) [feminine] (Ukrainian), pavêye [feminine] (Walloon), levêye [feminine] (Walloon), tchåsseye [feminine] (Walloon)
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  3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic. Categories (topical): Roads Translations (portion of bridge/railway used by traffic): Straßendamm [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-roadway-en-noun-bGYQhMyO Disambiguation of Roads: 44 42 14 Disambiguation of 'portion of bridge/railway used by traffic': 10 26 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: pavement, permanent way, right of way, sidewalk, trailway, verge

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "projizná častýna",
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          "roman": "projiždža častyna",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic."
      ],
      "id": "en-roadway-en-noun-bGYQhMyO",
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        [
          "bridge",
          "bridge"
        ],
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        ],
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          "traffic"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 26 64",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "portion of bridge/railway used by traffic",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Straßendamm"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roadway"
}
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    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Extremaduran translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
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    "Terms with Italian translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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        "2": "road",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of \"riding\" when the compound was formed, thus originally \"a way for riding on\".",
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "pavement"
    },
    {
      "word": "permanent way"
    },
    {
      "word": "right of way"
    },
    {
      "word": "sidewalk"
    },
    {
      "word": "trailway"
    },
    {
      "word": "verge"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "2023 April 20, Gregory Wallace, “Roadway deaths level off after pandemic spike, but remain high”, in CNN:",
          "text": "It’s a dip of fewer than 150 deaths from highs reached in 2021, when the agency recorded the largest quarterly spike in its history of tracking roadway fatalities.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN:",
          "text": "Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.",
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        "A way used as a road."
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        "The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles."
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        "The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "word": "errepide"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carretera"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "word": "ajoväylä"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "estrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "way used as road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carretera"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "ryweg"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ertʻewekeli mas",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "երթևեկելի մաս"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "galtzada"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "platno",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "платно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calçada"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kørebane"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rijbaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "veturejo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ext",
      "lang": "Extremaduran",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "calçá"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chaussée"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calzada"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fahrbahn"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Straße"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "úttest"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "choseo"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "jalur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carreggiata"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kolovoz",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "коловоз"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "veibane"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kjørebane"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jezdnia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "faixa de rodagem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "projezžaja častʹ",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "проезжая часть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kolnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calzada"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "vägbana"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "körbana"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "yol şeridi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "yolun ortası"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "projizná častýna",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "word": "проїзна́ части́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "projiždža častyna",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "проїжджа частина"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pavêye"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "levêye"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tchåsseye"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "portion of bridge/railway used by traffic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Straßendamm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "roadway"
}

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