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road ~ street ~ path ~ way
[different pronunciation]
“Road” (noun) is ‘a smooth, prepared, open wide track or way for people, vehicles and animals to move along, usually outside or between towns and cities’,
a road
e.g.
Roads in a country are like nerves in a body.
There have been many road accidents these days.
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“Street” (noun) is ‘a smooth prepared not so wide track or a thoroughfare in a village, town or city, with houses or other buildings on one or both sides’,
a street with shops or buildings on one side
e.g.
Don’t let your children play in the streets.
We have a supermarket right across the street.
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“Path” (noun) is ‘a narrow track or way made by people walking over the ground day after day for some time, but not smooth and prepared, or made on purpose for vehicles; a line along which something moves’,
a path in the woods
e.g.
The dusty path in the woods is so narrow that people walk in a single file.
She moved along the garden path checking the plants one by one.
The police cleared a path through the protesters for the Minister to get away from there.
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“Way” (noun) is ‘a direction to follow to reach a place or a destination; a thoroughfare for travel or transportation; the distance to be travelled in order to reach a place, goal, or destination; the procedure or method in which something is done or has to be done; the mannerism a person behaves in’,
(a sign showing that it is ‘one way’, i.e. on that street/road, vehicles can go only in one direction)s
e.g.
The only way to reach his place is a dusty path through the fields.
Which is the way to the hospital, please?
You must learn the right way of addressing elders. (nothing to do with a road or path)
Schools are the places where children learn the way of life; not just the printed words in some text books!
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