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Roadway

//ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A way used as a road.

    "On the south side of the two running lines is a second goods store, reached by a roadway along the south side of the station. This roadway also acts as a terminus for all provincial bus services from Limerick."

  2. 2
    a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel wordnet
  3. 3
    The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
  4. 4
    The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

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".

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