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

We traveled from those high-rise cities to our next church in a Cambodian village at the end of a dirt road where first-generation Christians celebrated Easter with singing, tribal dances and preaching on the proofs of the Resurrection, the power of which was on beautiful display in their faces and voices.

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And that is why Mary McLeod Bethune was a two-room school located on a dirt road rather than a paved one like the all-White schools.

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Nearly an hour later, she turned onto a rutted dirt road and cranked up the Shania Twain tune “Honey, I’m home.”

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—LaToya Williams chased the sound of gunshots from the house to a dirt road where her 16-year-old son had fallen from a bullet through the ribs.

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Pierre, a 32-year-old Florida man with a felony record, had earlier told investigators that he was just an unlucky bystander on a dirt road, struck in the hand as bullets flew from an armed stranger with a face mask and a tattoo between his eyes.

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