Definition of road

"road" in the noun sense

1. road, route

an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

2. road

a way or means to achieve something

"the road to fame"

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Quotations for road

No flowery road leads to glory. [ La Fontaine ]

Milestones on the road of time. [ Chamfort ]

The ear is the road to the heart. [ Voltaire ]

No road is long with good company. [ Turk. Proverb ]

You can't be lost on a straight road. [ Proverb ]

Keep the common road and you are safe. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is the true road to Paradise. [ De la Ferriere ]

The road is not bad if I get home well. [ Proverb ]

Life is a narrow road full of encumbrances. [ Soulary ]

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. [ Pope ]

Between saying and doing there's a long road. [ Proverb ]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. [ Yogi Berra ]

The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill. [ Churchill ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

The heavenly powers never go out of their road. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends. [ Sprague ]

Compliment is the high-road to the heart of woman. [ Champcenest ]

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. [ Willmott ]

The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]

Unreasonable haste is often the direct road to error. [ Moliere ]

Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]

Gratitude is a cross-road that leads quickly to love. [ T. Gautier ]

Prudence is not poverty; it is the thorny road to wealth. [ Charles Reade ]

Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]

Philosophy, well understood, is an excellent road to heaven. [ Chastel ]

Love is the road to God; for love, endless love, is Himself. [ Sonnenberg ]

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. [ Propertius ]

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road.
The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode
Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height.
Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. [ Chamfort ]

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. [ Wendell Phillips ]

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

The ear is the road to the heart; and the heart is the road to the rest.

The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. [ Seneca ]

I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. [ Judge Haliburton ]

Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. [ Epictetus ]

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. [ George MacDonald ]

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A great name is like an eternal epitaph engraved by the admiration of men on the road of time. [ E. Souvestre ]

I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back! [ A. de Musset ]

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words, - industry and frugality. [ Franklin ]

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. [ Pythagoras ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]

The great men of the earth are but the markingstones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. [ Mazzini ]

Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. [ Boileau ]

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all travelling to one destination, - happiness; but few are going by the same road. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end? [ Cicero ]

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. [ Thoreau ]

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. [ Colton ]

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]

My notions about life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest. [ Southey ]

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. [ Swift ]

The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. [ Goldsmith ]

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. [ Prince de Ligne ]

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]

For from the crushed flowers of gladness on the road of life a sweet perfume is wafted over to the present hour, as marching armies often send out from heaths the fragrance of trampled plants. [ Richter ]

If the ear is the road to the heart, and the heart to the affections, how keen must the affliction of deafness be to those who possess great tenderness of the one, and susceptibility of the other. [ J. Ellis ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popularity is shame: if thou be once up, beware: from fame to infamy is a beaten road. [ Quarles ]

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

We may be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen world, framed in full harmony with the beauty of the visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and brighten all the road. [ Charles W. Eliot ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

road in Scrabble®

The word road is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters road:

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road in Words With Friends™

The word road is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters road:

ROAD
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Words containing the sequence road

Word Growth involving road

Shorter words in road

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Longer words containing road

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