A man clung to the branch of a tree for several hours after his car was washed away as he tried to cross a flooded causeway.
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Causeway
//ˈkɔːz.weɪ//
Synonyms for "causeway" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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6 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 19 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- calçada noun (raised roadway)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 堤道 noun (raised roadway)
- 砌道 noun (raised roadway)
Czech
2 entries- násep noun (raised roadway)
- násyp noun (raised roadway)
Esperanto
1 entries- digvojo noun (raised roadway)
Finnish
1 entries- pengertie noun (raised roadway)
French
1 entries- chaussée noun (raised roadway)
German
4 entries- Bahndamm noun (raised roadway)
- Damm noun (raised roadway)
- Dammstraße noun (raised roadway)
- Dammweg noun (raised roadway)
Hungarian
4 entries- burkolt gázló noun (raised roadway)
- gát noun (raised roadway)
- gátút noun (raised roadway)
- töltés noun (raised roadway)
Irish
1 entries- cabhsa noun (raised roadway)
Italian
2 entries- lastricato noun (raised roadway)
- selciato noun (raised roadway)
Japanese
2 entries- 土手道 noun (raised roadway)
- 陸橋 noun (raised roadway)
Malay
2 entries- jalan tambak noun (raised roadway)
- tambak noun (raised roadway)
Norman
1 entries- tailli noun (raised roadway)
Polish
2 entries- droga na grobli noun (raised roadway)
- grobla noun (raised roadway)
Russian
3 entries- гать noun (raised roadway)
- да́мба noun (raised roadway)
- насыпна́я доро́га noun (raised roadway)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cabhsair noun (raised roadway)
Spanish
1 entries- calzada elevada noun (raised roadway)
Turkish
1 entries- şose noun (raised roadway)
Welsh
1 entries- sarn noun (raised roadway)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
A causeway connecting a United States island to the mainland disappears beneath the sea several times a year, thereby cutting off the town from the mainland.
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An artificial causeway was built across the strait.
Source: tatoeba (12479220)
1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiaorm01londgoog . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England […]
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