A roadway is the part of a road used by vehicles, usually the paved surface between the edges or curbs. It is often used in technical or traffic-related contexts.
Formed in English from *road* + *way*, emphasizing the way or path for travel. It became common with modern road engineering and traffic planning.
Roadway sounds fancy, but it’s just “road” plus “way”—the drivable part of the road. Engineers use it when they want to talk about lanes and surfaces, not sidewalks and shoulders.
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