Meaning

3 senses
  1. A way used as a road.

  2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.

    Fahrbahn, Straße

    проезжая частьprojezžaja častʹ

    проїзна́ части́наprojizná častýna, проїжджа частинаprojiždža častyna

    a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel

  3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

    Straßendamm

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Environmental and roadway factors can also contribute to single-vehicle crashes.

  2. The roadway continues though forest for a brief period, and again enters the mountains.

  3. The left turn signal will only activate if a vehicle in the left turn lane triggers the sensor embedded in the roadway.

    deDie Linksabbiegeampel wird nur aktiv, wenn ein Fahrzeug in der Linksabbiegespur den in die Fahrbahn eingelassenen Sensor auslöst. — Yorwba

  4. Do not play on the roadway; it is very dangerous. Never play on the roadway!

    ruИграть на проезжей части — это очень опасно. Никогда не играй на проезжей части! — al_ex_an_der

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles:
Русский
By meaning 1
main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles:
portion of bridge/railway used by traffic:

Origin

From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stil

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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Forms

plural: roadways
Singularroadway
Pluralroadways

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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