roadway

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• General-American: /ˈɹoʊdˌweɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 D W EY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radewey-stile (literally “roadway-stile”)), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: errepide — way used as road
• Catalan: carretera — way used as road
• Finnish: ajoväylä — way used as road
• Galician: estrada — way used as road
• Polish: szosa — way used as road
• Portuguese: estrada — way used as road
• Spanish: carretera — way used as road
• Tamil: ரோடு (rōṭu) — way used as road
• Tamil: சாலை (cālai) — way used as road
• Afrikaans: ryweg — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Armenian: երթեւեկելի մաս (ertʻewekeli mas) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Basque: galtzada — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Bulgarian: платно (platno) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Catalan: calçada — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Danish: kørebane — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Dutch: rijbaan — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Esperanto: veturejo — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Extremaduran: calçá — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• French: chaussée — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Galician: calzada — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• German: Fahrbahn — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• German: Straße — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Hungarian: úttest — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Ido: choseo — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Indonesian: jalur — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Italian: carreggiata — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Macedonian: коловоз (kolovoz) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Norwegian Bokmål: veibane — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjørebane — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Polish: jezdnia — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Portuguese: faixa de rodagem — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Russian: проезжая часть (projezžaja častʹ) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Serbo-Croatian: kolnik — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Spanish: calzada — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Swedish: vägbana — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Swedish: körbana — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Turkish: yol şeridi — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Turkish: yolun ortası — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Ukrainian: проїзна́ части́на (projizná častýna) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Ukrainian: проїжджа частина (projiždža častyna) — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Walloon: pavêye — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Walloon: levêye — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• Walloon: tchåsseye — main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles
• German: Straßendamm — portion of bridge/railway used by traffic
• Polish: jezdnia — portion of bridge/railway used by traffic