Definition of Road

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Definition of Road

Road

A journey, or stage of a journey.

An inroad; an invasion; a raid.

A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.

A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.

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Road Quotations

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

I don't go down the road of condemning.
Joel Osteen

Road Translations

road in Afrikaans is pad
road in Danish is vej
road in Dutch is weg, baan, route
road in Finnish is tie
road in French is chemin
road in Italian is contrada, strada di campagna, cammino
road in Latin is iter itineris, via
road in Norwegian is vei
road in Portuguese is estrada
road in Spanish is rua

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