Meanings (ES + gloss)
calle • calzada • camino • carretera • ruta
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
camino
A path chosen, as in life or career.
Where, then, is the road to peace?
the road to happiness; the road to success.
Phrases
2+1 road2-1 roadA roadA-roadAbu RoadB roadBasque RoadsBerkeley RoadBuilth RoadBurma RoadC roadCemmaes RoadClarbeston RoadE-roadEccles RoadGrampound RoadGreat North RoadGreat RoadsHampton RoadsHarling RoadHeads of the Valleys RoadLahaina RoadsMackinnon RoadMilwaukee RoadMorchard RoadNew RoadsNickel Plate RoadOld Kent RoadPersian Royal RoadRdRd.Roman roadSilk RoadSt Columb RoadTapah RoadTexel RoadsTobacco RoadYellow Brick Roadaccess roadall roads lead to Mecca
Meanings (ES + gloss)
correría • incursión • raid • razia • rebato
A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.
There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.
allanamiento • asedio • ataque • batida • correría • invasión • redada • requisamiento (Americanism) • saqueo
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
a police raid of a narcotics factory
a raid of contractors on the public treasury
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
andar • cabalgar • caballear • montar • ruar
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
pasear • raitear • ruar
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
llevar
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
The cab rode him downtown.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
allanar • catear • despojar • expoliar • prear • predar • raidear • requisar • saquear
To engage in a raid against.
The police raided the gambling den.
The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.