ON THE ROAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on the road mean? 

• ON THE ROAD (noun)
  The noun ON THE ROAD has 1 sense:

1. travelling about

  Familiarity information: ON THE ROAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON THE ROAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travelling about

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

on the road; on tour

Context example:

they lost all their games on the road

Hypernyms ("on the road" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

 Context examples 

Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This suggests you might be on the road traveling and doing very well, no matter what the reason for your trip.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We met the dog-cart on the road.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once more on the road to Thornfield, I felt like the messenger-pigeon flying home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From Wiltshire, friend, said she, in a quavering voice; three days have I been on the road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Dashwoods were two days on the road, and Marianne bore her journey on both, without essential fatigue.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Can you make them out on the road, nephew?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, you know, speaks a great degree of weakness—but now she is so impatient to be in town, that she means to sleep only two nights on the road.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)