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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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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. Bob Dylan:

   I'm glad for my songs to be honored like this. But, you know, they didn't get here themselves. It's been a long road and it's taken a lot of doing.

2. Cal Fire:

   Firefighting personnel continue to aggressively work in treacherous terrain, providing structure defense and improving containment lines. All road closures will remain closed. The terrain is brush covered, rugged and steep, with difficult access.

3. Thein Sein:

   The nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) is a historic gift from us to our generations of the future, this is our heritage. The road to future peace in Myanmar is now open.

4. Keith Richards:

   That's being kicked around, at the moment, I'm just getting my head into the Stones and I haven't really thought about what I'm going to do afterwards. But usually if I put a record out, I do some road work. So, it's possible.

5. Corey Harbison:

   We have a lot of important issues we need to be dealing with. I just don't think we can deal with them if Bentley's in office because of the trust level of people in Alabama, this is kind of like a road block. A lot of people I've talked to, they don't want to see him in prison. ... They want to move on from this.

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
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=on the road