What's the difference between roads and roadstead?

Roads


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Roadstead


Definition:

  • (n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike his friend Melville, who did go venturing over the seas, Hawthorne was often stuck on its anxious verge; though the explorations he would undertake would be the perilous roadsteads of the human psyche.

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