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Noun
/ˈkôzˌwā/,
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causeways, plural;
  1. A raised road or track across low or wet ground

  1. a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand
  2. provide with a causeway; "A causewayed swamp"
  3. pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles
  4. In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway elevated on a sandbank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland.
  5. Battleship Parkway, commonly referred to locally and in the media as the "Causeway", is an elevated long causeway that carries US 90 and US 98 eastbound across Mobile Bay from the Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile, Alabama to Spanish Fort, Alabama. ...
  6. The Causeway is the name of the traffic crossing of the Swan River in Western Australia at the eastern end of Perth Water. Made up of two bridges on either side of Heirisson Island, the crossing links the City of Perth and Victoria Park.
  7. The Causeway, also known as the Tregaron, is a country house estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C.. The estate was designed by Charles A. Platt and constructed in 1912. ...
  8. (causeways) A craft similar in design to a barge, but longer and narrower, designed to assist in
  9. Elevated section of trail contained by rock, usually in permanent or seasonally wet areas.
  10. (10) -- a raised road formed on a mound (Oxford Dict.) Sample Image (Lesson 10)
  11. A raised roadway over a body of water. On the Tappan Zee the section of bridge from Nyack to the west truss is a causeway.
  12. A raised way, an ascent by steps, or a raised slope between Zion and the temple (Ch1 26:16, Ch1 26:18). In Ch2 9:11 the same word is translated "terrace."
  13. A raised road or way leading to a fort s entrance; usually over a moat, ditch or fosse.
  14. Same as a viaduct; often constructed over wetlands. See Viaduct.
  15. A raised embankment or trestle over swamp or overflow areas.
  16. A raised path across a Fosse (ditch) used in association with enclosures
  17. A passage or roadway that has been raised above wet ground.
  18. A bridge or raised way constructed over marshy land or water. It may be either an earth fill or bridge type structure.
  19. a raised track across wet land
  20. Raised road bed above lowlands
  21. a raised way over wet ground.
  22. A paved road or path.