Thesaurus results for AUTOBAHN

autobahn

noun

Definition of autobahn

as in motorway

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Recent Examples of autobahn At about 90 mph on an unlimited German autobahn the range will be cut by about 44% to around 185 miles, according to ChatGPT. — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026 For Hitler, the autobahn was a concrete expression of German efficiency and nationalism. — Big Think, 1 May 2026 Among myriad other possibilities, the Orca could be turned into an intriguing motorhome, quite likely the sleekest, slipperiest Class B+ RV roaming the autobahn. — C.c. Weiss march 05, New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2026 On the autobahn, Sport+ lowers the ride height and takes some camber off the wheels for better straight-line performance. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for autobahn

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Noun

Earlier in August, five teenagers were killed in a two-vehicle collision in Ireland after driving a car the wrong way down a motorway.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
At the periphery, the big cities with their golden nightlights bound together by long threads of motorway.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of motorway

Noun

Little Rock police spokesman Mark Edwards said the officer who was chasing Shelton did not follow him south in the northbound lanes, instead getting back on the interstate heading south in the southbound lanes.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2026
The offerings of any decent oyster shucker will change according to the seasons and the tides and the shoals and the shipping lines and the harbor freight and the rush-hour traffic on the interstate.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of interstate

Noun

Jerusalem — The giant billboard on Tel Aviv’s main highway placed Turkey squarely at the center of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election campaign.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
According to highway safety experts, many injuries in such crashes involve passengers being ejected from cars through moonroofs.

— Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of highway

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

The parking lot is west of Magnolia Avenue and just north of the interchange of the 91 and 5 freeways.

— Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026
Living in Southern California, my car is usually too loud for speakerphone calls on the freeway, but these completely solve that problem by directing crystal-clear audio right to my ears.

— Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of freeway

Noun

It was named Lucca incidentally because Auto Union star driver Hans Stuck set its record-breaking speed on a stretch of straight autostrada near the Italian town in 1935.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 May 2026
There’s also a Huracán Polizia version The Italian Highway Patrol uses a Huracán with police badging and a lightbar on the autostradas in and around Bologna.

— Sean Evans, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024

Definition of autostrada

Noun

Authorities on Wednesday pre-emptively announced that roads leading to the port would be closed to non-emergency vehicles for seven days, according to state media.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Under the new collective bargaining agreement, each NHL team must sign a permanent emergency backup who will be at every home game and travel with the team to all road games (like a bullpen catcher in Major League Baseball).

— Michael Russo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of road

Noun

The driver is also alleged to have made a U-turn from a through lane after exiting the expressway, according to the affidavit.

— Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
Directed by Takahiro Hasui, the latest installment in the franchise tracks Conan Edogawa investigating high-speed vehicular sabotage on an expressway network.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

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