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单词 causeway
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causeway

(kɔːzweɪ)
Word forms: plural causeways
countable noun
A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.

causeway in British English

(ˈkɔːzˌweɪ)
noun
1. 
a raised path or road crossing water, marshland, sand, etc
2. 
a paved footpath
3. 
a road surfaced with setts
Word origin
C15 cauciwey (from cauci + way); cauci paved road, from Medieval Latin (via) calciāta, calciātus paved with limestone, from Latin calx limestone

causeway in American English

(ˈkɔzˌweɪ)
noun
1. 
a raised path or road, as across wet ground or water
2.  Obsolete
a paved way or road; highway
verb transitive
3. 
to furnish with a causeway
Word origin
< causey + way

Examples of 'causeway' in a sentence
causeway

One year a group missed the low tide and had to cross by the road causeway.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The island is remote but connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The long duration of the eclipse cycle would help link the causeway to those who had gone before.
Francis Pryor BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans (2003)
The three-mile causeway that links it to the mainland is submerged twice a day.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Beyond an employment project for cured leprosy patients, the road became a causeway across flooded land.
Hyland, Paul Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994)
She slept on the ground that night, in the open air beneath the causeway bridge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A narrow causeway links the islands.
The Sun (2013)
It takes at least 15 minutes of rough scrambling to cross the causeway, which is jagged and wet.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

In other languages
causeway

British English: causeway NOUN
A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
  • American English: causeway
  • Brazilian Portuguese: via elevada
  • Chinese: 堤道
  • European Spanish: paso elevado
  • French: chaussée
  • German: Damm
  • Italian: strada rialzata
  • Japanese: 土手道
  • Korean: 둑길
  • European Portuguese: via elevada
  • Latin American Spanish: paso elevado
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