Definition of road

• n. - A journey, or stage of a journey.
• n. - An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
• n. - A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
• n. - A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.