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STATE HIGHWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
Synonyms:
expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("state highway" is a kind of...):
highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)
Meronyms (parts of "state highway"):
carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state highway"):
autobahn (an expressway in a German-speaking country)
autostrada (an expressway in an Italian-speaking country)
toll road; turnpike (an expressway on which tolls are collected)
