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

Lynn Boulton, the Sierra Club’s local conservation chair, walked along a dirt road to what was once a marshy alkali meadow.

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When a small lot near a popular trail overflows, cars quickly fill both sides of the narrow dirt road despite no-parking signs, said Seymour, the local resident.

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“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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