Motorway

Quick meaning: Motorway is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly US) A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

Example Sentences

In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.

All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.

It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.

One national agency is responsible for developing and maintaining the national motorway system, which typically is a small fraction of the entire roadway network. (page 8)

Word Forms

• motorways

Synonyms for motorway

Depending on context, synonyms include freeway, expressway, highway, autoroute, pike, throughway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include freeway, expressway, superhighway, throughway, thruway, pike.

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