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