Definitions for Roads
roads

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. roads, roadsteadnoun

   a partly sheltered anchorage

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1. roads

   A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads. The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths.

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1. Roads

   Roads is a short novel by author Seabury Quinn. It was published by Arkham House in 1948 in an edition of 2,137 copies. It was Arkham House's first illustrated book and the author's first hardcover. The story, in an unrevised edition, originally appeared in the January 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine. Roads is a Christmas story that traces the origins of Santa Claus from the beginning of the Christian era. The story is split into three parts: ⁕"The Road to Bethlehem" ⁕"The Road to Calvary" ⁕"The Long, Long Road" Roads was reissued in 2005 by Red Jacket Press, as a fully authorized facsimile reproduction of the original Arkham House edition.

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1. roads

   Plural form of the word road.

   A number of roads leading onto the motorway all had their signage upgraded over the course of a year.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 20, 2016  

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1. ROADS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Roads is ranked #44730 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Roads surname appeared 480 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Roads.
   
   86.6% or 416 total occurrences were White.
   8.3% or 40 total occurrences were Black.
   2.9% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Anchorage

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Roads' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2797

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Roads' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1616

How to pronounce Roads?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Roads in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Roads in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Roads in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Roads in a Sentence

1. Richard Isaacson:

   You can't just eat a magic blueberry or follow a certain diet and think that your likelihood of Alzheimer's is going to go away, people take different roads to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

2. Nicole Saphier:

   More children die from cancer, drownings and car accidents daily than are dying from Covid, yet people are still driving on the roads and swimming in pools, it is time to take a step back and acknowledge that there is more damage being done to the children through prolonged restrictions than benefit … It is time to transition from a state of delusional fear and move forward confidently knowing the pandemic is not over, but the emergency certainly is.

3. James Lankford:

   Our border patrol agents are doing their best to secure our border, but they need additional barriers, roads, and technology to help keep us safe, instead, President Biden is paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting, while at the same time we’ve seen a 20-year high number of migrants crossing our open border.

4. Akram Hasso:

   Now, the local municipalities are undertaking a project to asphalt the roads in all the cities of the region.

5. Apostolos Kimisis:

   I'm standing outside and it's about to rain. If that sets off a rockfall in the mountains, how will we repair the roads? we've got a heap of projects, a heap of obligations.

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