What does roadway mean?
Word: Roadway
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Roadway means the part of a street that cars, buses and other traffic drive on.
Synonyms: carriageway
How do you spell roadway?
Syllables: road - way
Tricky part: Students are unsure whether it is one word, two words or hyphenated. It is one word, with nothing between the two halves.
Watch out for: roadwey, rodeway, roedway
Memory tip: Picture traffic rolling along the roadway in one unbroken line: the word, too, runs on with no gap and no hyphen.
Roadway in a sentence
Example 1: A fallen tree blocked the roadway after the storm.
Example 2: Workers painted white lines down the middle of the new roadway.
Example 3: Cows sat calmly in the middle of the roadway while cars waited.
Fun Fact
In British English, a dual carriageway has two separate roadways, one for each direction, with a strip of land between them.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) roadway
b) futpath
c) railwey
d) hieway
Show answer
a) roadway. The other three each spell a vowel sound wrongly; roadway is the only one spelt right.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
roaddway
a) a
b) w
c) o
d) d
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d) d. Only one d belongs in the word, at the point where its two halves join.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) motorway
b) rodway
c) causeway
d) expressway
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b) rodway. The first vowel sound is spelt oa, as in boat and coat.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
wydaroa
a) railway
b) headway
c) roadway
d) doorway
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c) roadway. Railway needs an i and an l, doorway a second o, and headway an h and an e.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Keep off the roadway when you walk to school, because ____.
a) it is closed in the morning
b) it is only for cyclists
c) it is meant for traffic
d) it belongs to the shops
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c) it is meant for traffic
2. Workers paint white lines on a roadway to ____.
a) help the rain drain away
b) keep traffic in its lanes
c) show where to plant trees
d) mark the way for walkers
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b) keep traffic in its lanes
