| road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
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| (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
| roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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| roadhog | (noun) a driver who obstructs others | Synonyms: road hog |
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| roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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| roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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