highway

noun

ˈhī-ˌwā How to pronounce highway (audio)
Definition of highwaynext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city

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Recent Examples of highway The crash came three weeks after 17 people died in another accident along the same highway linking the capital, Nairobi, with the coastal city of Mombasa. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 The engine is perfectly adequate for daily driving, providing enough power to merge onto highways, navigate urban traffic, and haul the family toward its next destination. — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026 The vehicle traveled from Guangzhou to Wenzhou along the G228 coastal highway, completing the journey in 23 hours and 14 minutes. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 The restaurant’s name is a nod to former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, whose legacy includes planting wildflowers along Texas highways to brighten the drive. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for highway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highway
  1. road
  2. freeway
  3. street
  4. expressway
  5. thoroughfare
  6. route
  7. roadway
  8. boulevard
Noun
  • The rear tire plays a different role from its conventional use on roads.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The trip to Seattle began a stretch of six road games in eight weeks.
    — Sam McDowell October 25, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • Rui Hachimura had 16 points and six rebounds in his first trip back up the I-110 freeway to face the Lakers, his team for the previous 3 1/2 seasons.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The neighborhood had a diner, churches, and dance halls — but construction of the Crosstown freeway in the late 1960s would lead to an exodus of Filipino residents.
    — Marlee Ginter, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of freeway
Noun
  • In the city of Hurricane in far southwestern Utah, a shipping container drifting down a street gave way Friday to a mess of mud and debris to be cleaned up as people who had evacuated earlier in the week returned home.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • There are few occasions that garner such good-willed camaraderie in New York City as the annual marathon, though the Knicks historic win this summer brought people out into the streets in rivaling numbers.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • Along with the crossing to Vung Tau, Vingroup is working on a metro line connecting Can Gio to Ho Chi Minh City and roads that will link to the city’s expressway network.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Video shows the single-engine plane careening into an overpass arching atop the expressway.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of expressway
Noun
  • Chu recommends the side streets near popular thoroughfares for less traffic and therefore more generous candy offerings.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In Bordeaux, Rue Sainte-Catherine, the city’s main shopping thoroughfare, was hit by widespread damage.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
Noun
  • If a prescription costs $500 through insurance but $100 through Cost Plus Drugs, patients should be able to take the cheaper route and have that spending count toward their deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums.
    — Emma Witman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Fewer people pay directly for medical care, and government heavily subsidizes demand without increasing supply, a sure route to higher prices.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of route
Noun
  • The Silverado then veered off the roadway, traveled up an embankment and overturned, coming to rest on its roof in the third lane.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Once-barren lots have been excavated to lay foundations for apartments, roadways and restaurants.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of roadway
Noun
  • Many of these artisans are building their practice in Almaty, the country’s de facto economic and cultural heart, where remnants of its Soviet past shoulder neo-nomad restaurants on leafy boulevards.
    — Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Mel’s Drive-In faces demolition For decades, the bold, mid-century building at Lincoln and Olympics boulevards in Santa Monica has been the end of the line — the last address on the 2,400-mile westward journey of Route 66.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of boulevard

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