roadway

Meaning

Noun

• A way used as a road.
• The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
• The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic.

Origin

• From Middle English *rodeway, *radewey (attested in radeweystile), equivalent to road + way; road had the early sense of "riding" when the compound was formed, thus originally "a way for riding on".