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road

1. 
a. an open way, usually surfaced with asphalt or concrete, providing passage from one place to another
b. (as modifier): road traffic
2. a street
3. 
a. US short for railroad
b. Brit one of the tracks of a railway
4. Nautical a partly sheltered anchorage
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

What does it mean when you dream about a road?

Dreams about roads often represent one’s direction or goal in life. If the road is straight and narrow, what has been planned is being successfully carried out. If the road is winding or bumpy, the dreamer’s plans are vague or flexible, or the dreamer is meeting with unexpected change or difficulty. A roadblock may mean the dreamer needs to be more persistent and diligent, or double back and take another route.

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road

[rōd]
(civil engineering)
An open way for travel and transportation.
(geology)
One of a series of erosional terraces in a glacial valley, formed as the water level dropped in an ice-dammed lake.
(mining engineering)
Any mine passage or tunnel.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Road

(dreams)
It usually symbolizes the journey that we take to achieve our goals. The road in the dream represents a road in your life. It could be the road to your heart, spirit, or mind. Consider the kind of road that you were on and try to see how it relates to your daily realities. If the road is straight, wellmarked, and lit, it may an affirmation that you are moving in the right directions. If there are many obstacles and the road is very hard, consider your options.
Bedside Dream Dictionary by Silvana Amar Copyright © 2007 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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I had now arrived at that particular point of my walk where four roads met--the road to Hampstead, along which I had returned, the road to Finchley, the road to West End, and the road back to London.
I was rather startled by your sudden appearance in the road; and I am, even now, quite unable to account for it."
I wanted you to show me the road, so I shouldn't go there by mistake."
From here he started along another road; then came back and tried another; but each time he found the way strange and decided it would not take them to the farm-house.
I must put her in the reverse and get back, even if we have to wait on the higher part of the road for a boat."
Already the road which had been clear a few minutes before was hidden.
Vasili Andreevich took his advice and turned to the right, but still there was no road. They went on in that direction for some time.
Gals is nat'lly made contrary; and so, if you thinks they've gone one road, it is sartin you'd better go t' other, and then you'll be sure to find 'em.
South of Gold Beach, climbing a narrow road through the virgin forest, they heard from far above the jingle of bells.
This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.
"Hey!" cried the mender of roads, reflectively; "that's true."
For, absurd as it may sound, with that look into those Arabian Nights' eyes, had come somewhere out of space an overwhelming intuition, nay, an unshakable conviction, that the woman who was already being rolled away from me down the road in that Dis's car of a farmer's gig, was now and for ever and before all worlds the woman God had created for me, and that, unless I could be hers and she mine, there would be no home, no peace for either of us so long as we lived.
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