roadmaker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who or something that builds roads.
noun
An innovator; a trailblazer; a pioneer.
Example Sentences
- "The really acute roadmaker will be as shy of having clay in the interstices of his stone work as the vigilant mason is of having clay in a brick or stone wall."
- "In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker."
- "Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker."
- ""Thank you for the compliment, your Reverence," he replied, construing the delicate innuendo in a favourable sense' "sure every one, high and low, knows Andy Spain, the roadmaker, after his forty years on the highway, since I was a gossoon helpin' my father, who was a roadmaker before me. Bedad, I am a well-known character, and no mistake.""
- "The roadmaker has his dreams and visions as well as the poet, and he expresses them in broken stones."
- "In what way and to what extent may Gresham be looked upon as a roadmaker?"