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secondary road

noun

a road less important than a main road or highway.

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Origin of secondary road

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby secondary road

secondary processes, secondary qualities, secondary quality, secondary rainbow, secondary recovery, secondary road, secondary saturation, secondary school, secondary sensory nucleus, secondary seventh chord, secondary sex characteristic
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