safety isle

1. 1.

   a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians

   Synonymstraffic islandsafety islandsafety zone

   Broaderisland

   Part ofroadbed

Questions about safety isle

What does safety isle mean?

safety isle means "a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians".

What is another word for safety isle?

Close synonyms include traffic island, safety island, safety zone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is safety isle a common word?

safety isle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.