highway
IPA: hˈaɪweɪ
noun
- (historical) A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides
- A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
- (figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny
- (law, rail transport) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
- (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
- A number of places in England:
- A western suburb of Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8680).
- A neighbourhood of Redruth, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7143).
- A neighbourhood in Stoke sub Hamdon parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4717).
- A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0474).
verb
- To travel on a highway
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Examples of "highway" in Sentences
- The length of the highway is 300km.
- The car was speeding in the highway.
- The highways run concurrently in the region.
- The remainder of the highway was a gravel road.
- To the south along the highway is the schoolhouse.
- The highway is scarcely noticeable to the visitors.
- Highway 4 is the name of two formerly congruous highways in Arkansas.
- Maybe the pavement is the highway and the set of alignments is the route.
- The predecessor of the primary highway system was the registered route system.
- The long route is comprised solely of the interchange between the two highways.
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