Highway

Quick meaning: Highway is a noun meaning A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (law, rail transport) Any public road.
2. (figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
3. (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
4. To travel on a highway
5. (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.

Example Sentences

I'm on the highway to hell

You're on a highway to greatness.

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”?.

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.

Word Forms

• highways
• highwaying
• highwayed

Synonyms for highway

Depending on context, synonyms include bus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carriageway, road, off-ramp, motorway, freeway, expressway.

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