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

“I didn’t love being famous,” he says, as we pull onto a dirt road approaching Vega Vineyard & Farm.

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Kerrie Aley owns a home on a 7.5-acre lot at the end of a dirt road in Pioneertown, a small community that was built to act as a film studio for western movie shoots.

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“Just, like, cactuses and a dirt road and stuff?”

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Like Reinman, callers everywhere are connecting with the innocuous little booth located not far from the California-Nevada border, along a winding and treacherous dirt road accessible only by four-wheel-drive vehicle.

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Fire investigator Robert Price arrived at the dirt road leading up to the hillside transmission line where the fire had ignited the night before to see the yellow crime scene tape lying on the ground and an Edison truck driving out, Price said in his report.

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