ROADWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roadway mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROADWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

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

carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)

 Context examples 

“The old hound is the best when all is said,” quoth the bailiff of Southampton, as they made back for the roadway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Young children who live close to a major roadway are twice as likely to score lower on tests of communications skills, compared to those who live farther away from a major roadway.

(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)

But he made straight for the door, crossing the roadway to save time; and as he came, he drew a key from his pocket like one approaching home.

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

This time, after going to the far side of the Pass, he suddenly turned down a narrow roadway which ran sharply to the right.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I turned to thank my preserver, who stood beside me in the roadway.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was able to obtain five very clear impressions of his footmarks: one in the roadway itself, at the point where he had climbed the low wall, two on the lawn, and two very faint ones upon the stained boards near the window where he had entered.

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

It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.

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

Come then, for it grows late and the horses are stamping in the roadway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rough roadway still led downwards; we could trace it through the drifted snow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He lay in the roadway so shaken in his wits that he never saw what became of the cab.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)