Definitions for On The Road
on the road

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1. on the road, on tournoun

   travelling about

   "they took the show on the road"; "they lost all their games on the road"

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1. On the Road

   On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

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1. on the road

   "On the road" generally refers to traveling, typically over a long distance, usually by vehicle. It can also imply a journey or an ongoing process of change or development.

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1. On the Road

   On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac. On the Road is based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The idea for On the Road formed during the late 1940s. It was to be Kerouac's second novel, and it underwent several drafts before he completed it in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

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1. on the road

   Read the full text of the On the Road poem by Claude McKay on the Poetry.com website.

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How to pronounce On The Road?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of On The Road in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of On The Road in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of On The Road in a Sentence

1. James Clyburn:

   People keep forgetting that to get to the universal access to health care ... was a long road.

2. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

3. Rob Stutzman:

   If Trump opens his own media channel and goes on the road with Trump rallies and claims that he really won the election … that would probably tear the party apart.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

5. Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

   This bipartisan legislation takes us a long way down the road in meeting the needs of the American people, while the compromise does not go as far as our Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act, thanks to the unity and insistence of Senate and House Democrats, the bill has moved a great deal closer to America's workers.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road
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4. ^ Wikidata
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