service road
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A relatively narrow road which runs alongside a major transportation route, such as a canal, a railway line, or a controlled-access highway.
noun
A route which enters or circulates through an institution, compound, land area, etc. for purposes of private access, maintenance, or security.
Example Sentences
- "[I]t can only pinpoint phones to within a few hundred feet. That makes it difficult to tell if a signal is coming from a vehicle on the highway or from one on a parallel service road."
- "RCMP issued a news release reporting that a passing motorist had found a woman's body in a ditch next to a service road adjacent to Highway 16."
- "From the day-use area behind Longmire Lodge, we walked up the service road behind the ranger station and employee housing."
- "Large steel columns from the fallen World Trade Center have been found beneath a service road being excavated at Ground Zero."
- "We walk the service road, past the stables, up the slope, to where the watermill stands."