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# road

«road» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wide hard path where cars, buses and bikes travel from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (road, roads)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A road is a wide hard path where cars, buses and bikes travel from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#m1)

2) «Road» is part of many street names: «12 Mill Road». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#m2)

3) «On the road» means travelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#m3)

4) The road to something is the way to reach it: «the road to success». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a length to travel or to build; distances along a road; trees or lamps along a road at equal gaps; parts of a road repaired each day. In everyday life and safety: road safety, crossing the road, road signs, a road trip. Phrases: «cross the road», «along the road», «down the road» (near, or later), «road trip», «main road».

### examples

- The road from the farm to town is 12 km long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x1)
- Workers fix 300 m of road each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x2)
- There are trees along the road every 5 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x3)
- The road is 8 m wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x4)
- Stop, look and listen before you cross the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x5)
- We went on a road trip across Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x6)
- The shop is just down the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x7)
- This road is closed for repairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x8)
- They walked back to the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/road/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a road». Do not confuse with «rode» (past of ride) or «rowed» (same sound). Maths: usually gives a distance or a length. Trap: posts or trees «along a road» need one more than the gaps (or the same at both ends — read carefully). Safety: never play on the road.

### In the corpora

- [Taxes pay for schools, the NHS, roads, police and benefits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/15/)
- [It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/3/)
- [The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/11/)
- [The money taken off pays for schools, hospitals and roads, and some is saved for when she is old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/4/)
- [Tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads; a pension is money saved for when you are old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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