carriageway

English

Etymology

carriage +‎ way

Noun

carriageway (plural carriageways)

1. (UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.
2. (UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.

Synonyms

• (part of a road that carries traffic): roadway (US)
• (one side of a dual carriageway): lanes (US), direction (US), side (US)

Derived terms

• dual carriageway

Translations

part of a road that carries traffic

• Arabic: مَسْلَك m (maslak)
• Armenian: երթևեկելի մաս (ertʻewekeli mas)
• Belarusian: прае́зная ча́стка f (prajéznaja částka), прае́зжая ча́стка f (prajézžaja částka)
• Bulgarian: платно́ (bg) n (platnó)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行車道／行车道 (xíngchēdào), 車道／车道 (zh) (chēdào)

• Czech: vozovka (cs) f
• Danish: kørebane (da) c
• Dutch: rijbaan (nl) f, rijweg (nl) m
• Estonian: sõidutee
• Faroese: koyribreyt f, akbreyt f, koyribani m
• Finnish: ajorata (fi)
• French: chaussée (fr) f
• Galician: calzada f
• German: Fahrbahn (de) f, Fahrstreifen (de) m
• Hindi: वाहनमार्ग m (vāhanmārg)
• Hungarian: úttest (hu)
• Irish: carrbhealach m
• Italian: carreggiata (it) f
• Japanese: 自動車道 (じどうしゃどう, jidōshadō), 車道 (ja) (しゃどう, shadō)
• Korean: 차도(車道) (ko) (chado), 자동차 도로(自動車道路) (jadongcha doro)
• Macedonian: ко́ловоз m (kólovoz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjørebane m

• Persian: باند عبور (bând-e 'obur), سواره‌رو (fa) (savâre-row)
• Polish: jezdnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: pista (pt) f
• Romanian: șosea (ro) f
• Russian: прое́зжая часть (ru) f (projézžaja častʹ) (доро́ги)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̑лнӣк m

  Roman: kȏlnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: vozovka f
• Spanish: calzada (es) f
• Swedish: körbana (sv) c
• Ukrainian: проїзна́ части́на f (projizná častýna), прої́жджа части́на f (projíždža častýna)
• Vietnamese: lòng đường (vi)

one side of a dual carriageway

• Indonesian: jalur (id)
• Vietnamese: đường lộ, tuyến xe