Meanings
plural dirt roads
- An unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump, down to a small Negro settlement some five hundred yards beyond the Ewells‘. It was necessary either to back out to the highway or go the full length of the road and turn around; most people turned around in the Negroes’ front yards.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLCSynonyms: dirt track
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material.
Translations
Esperanto tervojo
- tervojoan unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Finnish maatie, päällystämätön tie
- maatiean unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
- päällystämätön tiean unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
French piste, chemin de terre
- pistean unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
- chemin de terrean unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Hungarian földút
- földútan unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Lithuanian gruñtkelis
- gruñtkelisan unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Polish droga gruntowa
- droga gruntowaan unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Russian грунто́вая доро́га
- грунто́вая доро́га (gruntóvaja doróga)an unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Ukrainian грунто́ва доро́га
- грунто́ва доро́га (hruntóva doróha)an unpaved road consisting solely of subgrade material
Cite this entry
dirt road. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt%20road
“dirt road.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt%20road. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dirt road,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt%20road.
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