ring road

noun

chiefly British
: a highway skirting an urban area

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The London Orbital Motorway, or the M25, is a vast ring road that runs in a shaggy circle around the outer edges of the capital. Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025 Projects include installing additional 50-amp outlets to the inner ring road, security lighting, and 50-amp outlets to the east parking lot and to the area west of the grandstand. ATTORNEY: Approved a resolution to hire Thomas Borgen as assistant McLeod County attorney. Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 People were living in deep poverty right there in Oxford, on the ring road and in the outer suburbs, beyond the university. Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024 Down the Martin Luther ring road, around Leipzig’s cubic, porphyry-bricked church, Turks draped in flags processed towards the RB Arena. James Horncastle, The Athletic, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for ring road 

Word History

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ring road was in 1905

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“Ring road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ring%20road. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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