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HIGHWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A major road for any form of motor transport
Synonyms:
highway; main road
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("highway" is a kind of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
Meronyms (parts of "highway"):
interchange (a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams)
traffic lane (a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "highway"):
arterial road (a major or main route)
beltway; bypass; ring road; ringway (a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center)
divided highway; dual carriageway (a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions)
expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway (a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic)
highroad; trunk road (a highway)
interstate; interstate highway (one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States)
Instance hyponyms:
Appian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC)
Flaminian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC; extends north from Rome to cisalpine Gaul)
Context examples:
Long-haul trucks on interstate highways often drive at relatively constant speeds with little or no intersections which makes autonomous driving easier to achieve.
(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)
The 60,000 newly discovered structures include raised highways, urban centers with sidewalks, homes, terraces, industrial-sized agricultural fields, irrigation canals, ceremonial centers, a 30-meter high pyramid, fortresses and moats.
(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)
Every road leading from London, as well as those from Guildford in the west and Tunbridge in the east, had contributed their stream of four-in-hands, gigs, and mounted sportsmen, until the whole broad Brighton highway was choked from ditch to ditch with a laughing, singing, shouting throng, all flowing in the same direction.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The dead robber swung slowly to and fro in the wintry wind, a fixed smile upon his swarthy face, and his bulging eyes still glaring down the highway of which he had so long been the terror; on a sheet of parchment upon his breast was printed in rude characters;
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was a young chap then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you would call over here a highway robber.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Along the white surface of the dusty highway there was drawn a long smear of crimson, while beside this ominous stain there lay a murderous little pocket-bludgeon, such as Warr had described in the morning.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Lady Tiphaine and her spouse sprang upon their steeds without setting feet to stirrup, and away they jingled down the white moonlit highway, with Sir Nigel at the lady's bridle-arm, and Ford a spear's length behind them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, by these ten finger-bones! it is a passing strange thing to me to think that it was but in the last fall of the leaf that we walked from Lyndhurst together, he so gentle and maidenly, and you, John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There had been frost during the night, and the white hard road rang loud under their horses' irons as they spurred through the east gate of the town, along the same broad highway which the unknown French champion had traversed on the day of the jousts.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the banners of war had been flung to the wind once more, and over those glistening peaks was the highway along which Honor pointed in an age when men had chosen her as their guide.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
