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Translation of road in Spanish:

road

calle, n.

Pronunciation /roʊd/ /rəʊd/

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noun

  • 1

    (for vehicles)
    (in town) calle feminine
    (out of town) carretera feminine
    (minor) camino masculine
    (accident) (before noun) de tráfico
    (accident) (before noun) de tránsito Latin America
    is this the road to Boston? — ¿éste es el camino/la carretera que va a Boston?
    • the Cambridge road — la carretera (que va) a Cambridge
    • five miles down the road — a cinco millas siguiendo la carretera/el camino
    • a factory just down the road (from here) — una fábrica que hay aquí muy cerca
    • there's a baker's over / across the road — enfrente / al otro lado de la calle hay una panadería
    • the people from over the road — los de enfrente
    • the house is set back a mile or so from the road — la casa está como a una milla de la carretera
    • a major/minor road — una carretera principal/secundaria
    • a dirt road — un camino sin pavimentar
    • it's good road all the way now — de aquí en adelante el camino es bueno
    • by road — por carretera
    • my car's off the road — tengo el coche fuera de circulación / averiado
    • road closed — carretera cerrada
    • road narrows — estrechamiento de calzada / carretera
    • road junction — cruce de carreteras
    • road mender — peón caminero
    • road racing — carreras automovilísticas
    • road repairs — obras en la carretera
    • road traffic accident — accidente de circulación
    • road transport — transporte por carretera
    • New roads were constructed as wide boulevards to prevent fires from spreading from one side of the street to the other.
    • Consequently, in the absence of a good public transport system, the vehicles on Delhi's roads have swollen to around 2.7 million.
    • Training horses to accept traffic, road works and roadside obstacles is more important than ever in these days of litigation and the increasing number of vehicles on the roads.
    • Watch out for surface drainage when new roads or driveways are constructed in the area.
    • For example a neutrally grey road surface illuminated by sunlight falling through green foliage may be violet; but its local colour remains grey.
    • If a road accident involves a rider who has dismounted and is leading their horse at the time, the rider would be classified as a pedestrian.
    • A near-fatal road accident in 1925 dramatically altered the course of her life.
    • His crisp white Greek Revival house still stands at a curve in the main road, momentarily blocking the bay view as you drive past.
    • We travelled nine hours from Mexico City, and the bus let us off on the main road in the foothills, eight kilometres from town at midnight.
    • In the film, Gary and Jack meet more or less by accident when they steal a car and head off on the back roads through outback New South Wales towards Sydney.
    • Make sure fences, walls and gates are in good repair, so children cannot slip through holes onto busy roads.
    • He likes to restage legendary road accidents, such as the ones that killed James Dean, Grace Kelly and Jane Mansfield.
    • The curving lines of the roads give them the look of village lanes, and the few cars that venture into the cul-de-sacs usually travel slowly.
    • These channels sometimes undercut farm roads and fields, causing them to collapse.
    • Janet would walk across the road every morning and glean what knowledge she could from the two brothers while they were milking.
    • Follow this road 1 1/2 miles northwest out of town to the Larson farm on the west side.
    • Air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, often found in buildings near major roads, restrict the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
    • The prison officers chased him, but he crossed a very busy main road and they lost him.
    • On Monday, we headed north to Montana along some narrow, winding two-lane mountain roads.
    • The next day thousands of workers defied armed police and blockaded a major toll road into the provincial capital.

  • 2

    (route, way)
    camino masculine
    the road to peace — el camino hacia la paz
    • we're on the right road — vamos por buen camino / bien encaminados
    • he is taking the country down the road to bankruptcy — está llevando el país camino a la bancarrota
    • the economy is on the road to recovery — la economía está en vías de recuperación
    • his agent put / set / started him on the road to stardom — su agente lo encaminó hacia el estrellato / lo puso en camino al estrellato
    • Understanding this can aid teachers and learners as they make sense of interpersonal conflict on the road to forming successful groups.
    • Even though her storyline - which follows João on the road to stardom, with several stopovers in prison - can seem underdeveloped, Ramos is always charismatic.
    • A gang of petty thieves make a big score on an armored van, but instead of landing on easy street, they find themselves on the road to frustration.
    • Our story concerns the continuing growth and development of Anakin Skywalker on the road to becoming the greatest screen villain of all time.
    • The project has provided new knowledge and skills for many producers, setting them on the road to achieving this.
    • It's about how these children, many of whom lack self-confidence and are on the road toward delinquency, overcome challenges through this class.
    • Clearly, fascism could serve as a way station on the road to other forms of anticapitalism.
    • He has created a lavishly stunning, sweeping story of the little wooden doll's many adventures on the road to boyhood.
    • Anointing the house cricket Timothy as Pinocchio's conscience guide, the two set off on a series of wild and wacky adventures, each providing a valuable lesson on the road to becoming a real boy.
    • Eiriz's works resist the world and maintain a critical space apart from the propaganda of the world in a way profoundly akin to Adorno's formulation; they stand as powerful and moving signposts on the road to Dystopia.
    • He said figuring out what caused the Columbia to break up could help pave the road to recovery.
    • Doubling their latest annual dividend suggests they're well on the road to recovery.
    • In many ways, we were on the road to perdition with agencies and advertisers.

  • 3

    on the road

  • 4roads plural

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