roadway

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a path made for vehicular travel

   The roadway is always congested during rush hour.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

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

4. 4
   noun

   The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

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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