different between roadwork vs roadworn

English

Etymology

road +? work

Noun

roadwork (countable and uncountable, plural roadworks)

1. The construction or maintenance done to roads.

   The traffic jam was caused by roadwork being done during rush hour.

2. Exercise such as running and jogging done on the roads.

   The athlete needed to get home early to do his roadwork before it got too dark to be safe.

3. The taking of a band on the road to perform music in different locations.
   • 2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky

     […] the Beatles had resigned from roadwork in the summer of '66 (much like Brian Wilson)—their tour ending, appropriately enough, in the hippie utopia of San Francisco—and turned Abbey Road Studios into their very own musical sandbox […]

Related terms

• roadworker
• roadworking

Translations

English

Etymology

road +? worn

Adjective

roadworn (comparative more roadworn, superlative most roadworn)

1. Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figuratively) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion.
   • 2001, Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains, Bantam Spectra (2001), ?ISBN, page 10:

     Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.

   • 2003, James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940, Singapore University Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 275:

     When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.

   • 2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books (2011), ?ISBN, page 192:

     He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.

See also

• wayworn