Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: roadway
IPA transcription: [ɹ'oʊdw,eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: roadway
    Meaning: a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel
Usage examples
  • "Was it a social trouble--that--in the great roadway place?
  • As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
  • Late in the afternoon of the next day, behind a livery horse, two men were covering the roadway between town and the Hallam place.
  • "Governor," a voice replied out of it, "there's a geek procession just landed from a water-barge in front, and is coming up the roadway to Company House.
  • And the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway, paused, and with undisguised wonder stared at the two girls.
  • The next moment they clattered over the drawbridge that spanned the narrow black gulph between the roadway and the wall, and the next were past the echoing arch of the great gateway and in the gray gloaming of the paved court-yard within.
  • Along most of its extent it was lined with thick-set young spruces crowding down to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.