freeway
IPA: frˈiweɪ
noun
- (In parts of Canada, the U.S. and Australia) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic running in two directions on one separate carriageway each
- A toll-free highway.
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Examples of "freeway" in Sentences
- Oh well, a freeway is a freeway.
- Fire brigade was involved in freeway pileup.
- There are a dozen major freeways that crisscross the region.
- Currently all of the Foothill Freeway has a 210 designation.
- The southernmost portion is a freeway known as the Ojai Freeway.
- In the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, the Cypress Freeway collapsed.
- At that point, the freeway was to turn southward as the Lake Freeway.
- There are plans to extend the freeway as far as the Riverside Freeway.
- The freeway corridor follows the paths of the Truckee and Humboldt Rivers.
- This is the source of the name of the freeway in Maryland the National Freeway.