causeway

[ kawz-wey ]

noun

1. a raised road or path, as across low or wet ground.
2. a highway or paved way.

verb (used with object)

1. to pave (a road or street) with cobblestones or pebbles.
2. to provide with a causeway.

causeway

/ ˈkɔːzˌweɪ /

noun

1. a raised path or road crossing water, marshland, sand, etc
2. a paved footpath
3. a road surfaced with setts

Word History and Origins

Origin of causeway¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; causey, way ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of causeway¹

C15 cauciwey (from cauci + way ); cauci paved road, from Medieval Latin ( via ) calciāta, calciātus paved with limestone, from Latin calx limestone

Example Sentences

Causeway Bay has rotating illustrations inspired by clashes with the police.

From The Daily Beast

By visiting Admiralty or Causeway Bay or Mong Kok, they see that it's not a dirty affair.

From The Daily Beast

Some subway exits in Causeway Bay, a major shopping district, were barricaded.

From The Daily Beast

But soon, he must have walked that mile along the causeway, over the water back to Miami.

From The Daily Beast

Whoever did what Luka Magnotta is accused of doing makes the Causeway Cannibal look like a pussycat.

From The Daily Beast

He was shot by a man of the 32d, and his body formed the lowermost layer of a causeway of corpses that soon choked the ditch.

From Project Gutenberg

He took them across the morass, about a mile wide, over a causeway of branches, which the rear demolished as they passed.

From Project Gutenberg

South of the whole ran the military way—a regular causeway about 20 feet wide.

From Project Gutenberg

It is on the edge of the mangrove swamp, and is reached by a sort of causeway of turf.

From Project Gutenberg

He seemed to muse a while, holding his lip in his hand, and looking now at me and now upon the causeway of the street.

From Project Gutenberg

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