ROADS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roads mean? 

• ROADS (noun)
  The noun ROADS has 1 sense:

1. a partly sheltered anchorage

  Familiarity information: ROADS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROADS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partly sheltered anchorage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

roads; roadstead

Hypernyms ("roads" is a kind of...):

anchorage; anchorage ground (place for vessels to anchor)

 Context examples 

Amidst the silence of those solitary roads and desert hills, I heard it approach from a great distance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That night I had come to the fatal cross-roads.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I couldn't talk to him, said Mr. Peggotty, nor he to me; but we was company for one another, too, along the dusty roads.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How could it be that if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?

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

The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My dear Sir Thomas, if you had seen the state of the roads that day!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On the way to town, hanging around the saloon at the cross-roads, were three dogs that made a practice of rushing out upon him when he went by.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We sit behind the best cattle in England, but I fear lest we find the roads blocked before we get to Crawley.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other components of TRAP that NTP evaluated included nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, black carbon, and elemental carbon, along with parameters like traffic density and mothers’ proximity to main roads.

(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)

In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)