Definitions
Route or paved way for travel by vehicle or on foot.
Word origin
From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway).
Used in a sentence
“In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.”
“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.”
“And the road doesn't end / It's a long, long road and we follow it again and again / And the road don't pretend”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues
01“Car route”4 letters
02“Driving route”4 letters
03“Driving surface”4 letters
04“Highway, for one”4 letters
05“Paved route”4 letters
06“Paved route for cars”4 letters
07“Route between towns”4 letters
08“Route for cars”4 letters
09“Route for vehicles”4 letters
10“Route with traffic”4 letters
11“Street for cars”4 letters
12“Way for cars”4 letters
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