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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highway |
| Synonyms: | drive, expressway, freeway, lance, parkway, point, road, thruway, tollgate |
| Main Entry: | investigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thorough check |
| Synonyms: | analysis, case, delving, examination, exploration, fact-finding, gander, hearing, hustle, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, legwork, observation, observing, pike, probe, probing, quest, quiz, research, review, scrutiny, search, sounding, study, survey, surveying |
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, sierra, stack, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
| Main Entry: | road |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path upon which travel occurs |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, asphalt, avenue, back street, boulevard, byway, cobblestone, concrete, course, crossroad, direction, drag*, dragway, drive, expressway, highway, lane, line, main drag, parking lot, parkway, passage, pathway, pavement, pike, roadway, route, street, subway, terrace, thoroughfare, throughway, thruway, track, trail, turnpike, viaduct, way |
| Notes: | street comes from Latin strata 'something laid'; road is a general term, whereas street is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application - a street typically has buildings on either side and is paved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
| Synonyms: | avenue, beat, beeline, byway, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, rounds, run, short cut, tack, track, trail, wandering, way |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | turnpike |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highway |
| Synonyms: | expressway, four-lane, freeway, interstate, parkway, pike, roadway, state highway, superhighway, toll road |
| Notes: | a highway is a main road; an expressway is a multilane highway; freeway, parkway, turnpike are types of expressways |
| Main Entry: | spear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lance |
| Synonyms: | bayonet, bill, gar, halberd, javelin, lancet, partisan, partizan, pike, weapon |
| Main Entry: | roadway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | road |
| Synonyms: | artery, asphalt, avenue, back street, boulevard, byway, cobblestone, concrete, course, crossroad, direction, drag*, dragway, drive, expressway, freeway, highway, lane, line, main drag, parking lot, parkway, passage, path, pathway, pavement, pike, route, street, subway, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, throughway, thruway, track, trail, turnpike, viaduct, way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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