roadway

roadway

English

Etymology

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".

Noun

roadway (plural roadways)

1. A way used as a road.
2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
3. The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

Translations

way used as road

Finnish: ajoväylä

main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles

Catalan: calçada f Extremaduran: calçá French: chaussée (fr) f German: Fahrbahn (de) f, Straße (de) f Ido: choseo (io) Macedonian: коловоз m (kólovoz) Norwegian: Bokmål: veibane m

Russian: проезжая часть (ru) (projezžaja častʹ) Serbo-Croatian: kolnik (sh) m Spanish: calzada (es) f Swedish: vägbana, körbana Turkish: yol şeridi, yolun ortası Ukrainian: проїзна́ части́на (projizná častýna), проїжджа частина f (projiždža častyna) Walloon: pavêye (wa) f, levêye (wa) f, tchåsseye f

portion of bridge/railway used by traffic

German: Straßendamm m

See also

• verge
• sidewalk