highwaynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/us/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/US or formal UKA2 a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together:
a coastal/interstate highway
See also
superhighway
More examples
- The photograph showed a lonely stretch of Arizona highway.
- The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
- Most of the old road - which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles - has been superseded by the great Interstate highways.
- The coach took the interstate highway.
- The highway connects New York and Philadelphia.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Roads: rural & suburban
- back road
- beltway
- bypass
- byway
- dirt road
- feeder
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- relief road
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through route
- throughway
- thruway
- trunk road
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Roads: motorways
Idiom(s)
the highways and byways