dirt road

American  

noun

1. an unpaved road.

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dirt road British  

noun

1. an unsealed country road

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Etymology

Origin of dirt road

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Through the drab streets of barracks we went, past the bunkers, through the maze of barbed-wire compounds and enclosures, and at last onto the rough dirt road through the woods down which we had stumbled that rainy night in June.

From Literature

The pavement petered out to a dirt road as we climbed higher and higher.

From Literature

When we arrived in Souilly, the bumps of a dirt road became bumps of a cobblestone road.

From Literature

The house — one level, bright and airy, with concrete floors to smooth the path of his wheelchair — perches at the end of a steep dirt road.

From Los Angeles Times

On the side of a dirt road near Felix's farm, a large signpost warned ominously: "Foot-and-mouth disease control area".

From Barron's