main road

English

Noun

main road (plural main roads)

1. A major road in a town or village, or in a country area.
2. (Northeastern US, UK) A major urban road, off which lead many smaller streets, many of them cul-de-sacs.

   Living near the main road means you hear a lot of traffic noise.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

3. (South Africa) High Street; Main Street
4. (in some countries) priority road; A road with entering traffic which must yield right of way

Translations

major road in a town, village etc.

• Afrikaans: hoofweg
• Arabic: طَرِيق رَئِيسِيّ m (ṭarīq raʔīsiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主路 (zh) (zhǔlù), 主要街道 (zhǔyào jiēdào), 大街 (zh) (dàjiē), 幹道／干道 (zh) (gàndào), 大路 (zh) (dàlù), 主幹道／主干道 (zh) (zhǔgàndào), 主要道路 (zhǔyào dàolù), 交通要道 (jiāotōng yàodào)

• Czech: hlavní silnice f
• Dutch: hoofdweg (nl) m
• Finnish: päätie
• French: rue principale f, grande rue (fr) f
• German: Bundesstraße (de) f
• Hungarian: főút (hu)
• Icelandic: aðalleið f
• Indonesian: jalan raya (id)
• Lao: ທາງຫຼວງ (thāng lūang)
• Maori: ara matua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedvei (no) m, hovedveg m

  Nynorsk: hovudveg m

• Old English: hēafodweġ m
• Russian: гла́вная доро́га f (glávnaja doróga), магистра́ль (ru) f (magistrálʹ), больша́к (ru) m (bolʹšák) (dated)
• Spanish: carretera principal f
• West Frisian: haadwei c

priority road

• Finnish: etuajo-oikeutettu tie
• German: Vorfahrtsstraße (de)
• Norwegian (Bokmål): forkjørsvei (no), forkjørselsvei
• Swedish: huvudled (sv) (in Sweden), väg med förkörsrätt (Finland Swedish)

Anagrams

• Romandia, radioman