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

• Basque: errepide
• Catalan: carretera (ca) f
• Finnish: ajoväylä
• Galician: estrada (gl) f
• Portuguese: estrada (pt) f
• Spanish: carretera (es) f

main or central portion of a road used by the vehicles

• Afrikaans: ryweg
• Armenian: երթևեկելի մաս (ertʿewekeli mas)
• Basque: galtzada
• Bulgarian: платно (bg) n (platno)
• Catalan: calçada (ca) f
• Danish: kørebane (da) c
• Dutch: rijbaan (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: veturejo
• Extremaduran: calçá
• French: chaussée (fr) f
• Galician: calzada f
• German: Fahrbahn (de) f, Straße (de) f
• Hungarian: úttest (hu)
• Ido: choseo (io)
• Indonesian: jalur (id)
• Italian: carreggiata (it) f
• Macedonian: коловоз m (kolovoz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veibane m, kjørebane m

• Polish: jezdnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: faixa de rodagem f
• Russian: проезжая часть (ru) (projezžaja častʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: kolnik (sh) m
• Spanish: calzada (es) f
• Swedish: vägbana, körbana (sv)
• 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

• pavement
• permanent way
• right of way
• sidewalk
• trailway
• verge