Formation and Road

Formation

Formation noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Road and formation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Road" instead a noun "Formation".

Nearby Words: form, formed, forming, format, formative

Road noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Formation and road are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Formation" instead a noun "Road".

Nearby Words: roadway, roadside, roadless, roadie

good	good formation	good road
common	common formation	common road
certain	certain formation	certain road
original	original formation	original road
Other adjectives: single, actual, entire, bad, famous, new, classic, last, different.

The ocean parts and a stone road running out to a large offshore rock formation forms.

Source: Open Sesame
Reaching Concord, they found themselves surrounded and then attacked by a much larger militia formation, and were forced to beat a fighting retreat up the "Battle Road" back to Boston.

Source: Useful Notes / The American Revolution
On one episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Heffer and Rocko go on a road trip to see Phlegm Rock (a rock formation shaped like a runny nose, where the "mucus" is algae-ridden water spewing from a spring) before it closes and gets paved over.

Source: Going to See the Elephant

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