dirt road

noun

1. an unpaved road.

dirt road

noun

1. an unsealed country road

Word History and Origins

Origin of dirt road¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Nearby, a harvest crew in straw hats and long sleeves was making quick work of an inconceivable quantity of iceberg lettuce, stacking boxes 10 high on the backs of tractor-trailers lining a dirt road.

From MIT Technology Review

If you’re a mountain biker, rock climber, or hunter, you know a thing or two about slogging up endless dirt roads to get to the goods.

From Outside Online

You can do it pretty much anywhere there’s a trail, park, dirt road, or golf course with enough snow to cover the ground—no lift lines or flying required.

From Outside Online

“The whistle-blowers said Ultimate Concrete went so far as to build a dirt road to expedite illegal border crossings to sites in San Diego, using construction vehicles to block security cameras,” the paper reports.

From Voice of San Diego

Along the county’s 300 miles of dirt roads — not to mention its paved ones — Make America Great Again flags and signs were ubiquitous, even weeks after the vote.

From Washington Post

The players made their way up the dirt road to the prison in a jolly convoy of dusty Jeeps and Land Cruisers.

From The Daily Beast

Christiansen says she was pulled over by a Border Patrol vehicle on a dirt road about two miles from her home.

From The Daily Beast

She does not want TV trucks lining the dirt road that leads to the unmarked compound.

From The Daily Beast

The march actually performed in that time was not less than fifteen miles, over an execrable dirt road.

From Project Gutenberg

As they whirled out on the dirt road leading to the camp he explained to them what he had been doing.

From Project Gutenberg

This from outside, the farmer standing on the dirt road, Hall's gift cigarette glowing in his mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

There was another road parallel and a half mile to the right, a dirt road according to the map-legend.

From Project Gutenberg

Halfway down the road into Berby Hollow was an old dirt road to the right that went along the hill through the woods.

From Project Gutenberg