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cause⋅way

[kawz-wey]

–noun

1.	a raised road or path, as across low or wet ground.

2.	a highway or paved way.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to pave (a road or street) with cobblestones or pebbles.

4.	to provide with a causeway.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME; see causey, way

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Language Translation for : Causeway

Spanish:

carretera elevada,

German:

erhöhter Fußweg,

Japanese:

土手道

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cause·way (kôz'wā') Pronunciation Key
n.

A raised roadway, as across water or marshland.
A paved highway.

[Middle English caucewei : cauce, raised road (from Norman French caucie, from Medieval Latin calciāta (via), paved (road), from Latin calx, calc-, limestone; see calx) + wei, road (variant of way; see way).]

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causeway

1571, from M.E. cauceweye, first element from Anglo-Norm. cauce, from V.L. *calciata via "paved way," from L. calcis, gen. of calx "limestone," or L.L. calciare "to stamp with the heels, tread" (on notion of a road or mound across marshy ground made firm by treading down).

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causeway
noun
1.	a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand
verb
1.	provide with a causeway; "A causewayed swamp"
2.	pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles

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Causeway

Cause"way\ (k[add]z"w[asl]), Causey \Cau"sey\ ((k[add]"z[y^]), n. [OE. cauci, cauchie, OF. cauchie, F. chauss['e]e, from LL. (via) calciata, fr calciare to make a road, either fr. L. calx lime, hence, to pave with limestone (cf. E. chalk), or from L. calceus shoe, from calx heel, hence, to shoe, pave, or wear by treading.] A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.

But that broad causeway will direct your way. --Dryden.

The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. --Milton.

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