Meaning

1 senses
  1. A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads.

    There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a back road. It was very scenic, but I had to keep the speed down.

    Nebenstraße, Seitenstraße

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Her house stands back from the road.

  2. We should be back on the road soon.

  3. We took a back road to avoid the heavy traffic.

    ruМы поехали просёлочной дорогой, чтобы избежать интенсивного движения. — sharptoothed

    deWir nahmen eine Nebenstraße, um dem dichten Verkehr auszuweichen. — Esperantostern

  4. It feels good to be back on the road again.

  5. To avoid being caught by the police, Tom drove on back roads.

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a secondary road, a little used road:

Forms

plural: back roads
Singularback road
Pluralback roads

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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