MAIN ROAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does main road mean? 

• MAIN ROAD (noun)
  The noun MAIN ROAD has 1 sense:

1. a major road for any form of motor transport

  Familiarity information: MAIN ROAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAIN ROAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major road for any form of motor transport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

highway; main road

Hypernyms ("main road" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "main road"):

interchange (a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams)

traffic lane (a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "main road"):

arterial road (a major or main route)

beltway; bypass; ring road; ringway (a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center)

divided highway; dual carriageway (a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions)

expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway (a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic)

highroad; trunk road (a highway)

interstate; interstate highway (one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States)

Instance hyponyms:

Appian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC)

Flaminian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC; extends north from Rome to cisalpine Gaul)

 Context examples 

Now, this line is the main road.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After passing Cahors, the party branched away from the main road, and leaving the river to the north of them, followed a smaller track which wound over a vast and desolate plain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath, a little raised on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The dog had suddenly turned out of the main road into a grass-grown lane.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I at once rode past the carriage, and, keeping to the main road, I went on for a few miles, and then halted in a convenient place to see if the carriage passed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)