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# causeway

«causeway» in Mova's school dictionary: **A raised road or path across wet ground, marshes or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a causeway, causeways)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A raised road or path across wet ground, marshes or shallow water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#m1)

2) The Giant's Causeway: a famous place in Northern Ireland with about 40,000 six-sided rock columns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, some islands are joined to the mainland by a causeway that floods at high tide, like Holy Island (Lindisfarne) in England. In safety lessons, check the tide times before crossing a tidal causeway. In science, the Giant's Causeway was made by cooling lava.

### examples

- We walked across the causeway to the island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x1)
- Check the tide times before driving over the causeway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x2)
- The causeway disappears under the sea at high tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x3)
- The Giant's Causeway has hexagonal columns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x4)
- Legend says the giant Finn McCool built the causeway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x5)
- A long causeway crosses the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x6)
- As for water, I am sinking a pump, and, plase goodness, as soon as the Causeway's made, I intend to finish it." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/#x7)

### note

Countable: a causeway, causeways. Not about «cause» (a reason); the word comes from an old word for a raised path. Safety: cars get stuck on tidal causeways every year when drivers ignore the tide.

### In the corpora

- [To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, ward against ward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.922/)
- [For the Precinct westward, four at the causeway, and two at the Precinct.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.924/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «causeway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/causeway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.