Highway

/ˈhaɪweɪ/ · noun

Meaning

A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare..

Definitions by Sense

1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
2. (law, rail transport) Any public road.
3. (figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
4. (archaic) A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.
5. (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
6. To travel on a highway

Example Sentences

The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

You're on a highway to greatness.

I'm on the highway to hell

So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

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Word Forms

• highways
• hwy.
• hwy
• hi'way
• hi-way
• hiway
• hi way
• highwaying
• highwayed

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