Thesaurus results for AUTOROUTE

autoroute

noun

as in motorway

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Recent Examples of autoroute Worthington spent his first years in France on a meagre wage, grateful that the club paid his expenses for trundling up and down the autoroute in his Fiat Punto: a 14-hour round trip to Lyon, a 16-hour there and back to Marseille. —

Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 The bridge carries the A75 autoroute across the Tarn valley, stretching 2,460 meters. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025 The result has been massive, heavy and hugely expensive vehicles which need ever bigger batteries, taxpayer incentives, and can’t handle long-range, high-speed autoroute cruising. —

Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Fast but legal cruising down the autoroute was also unimpressive, slashing range by over 60%. —

Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for autoroute

Noun

The traffic on the M1 motorway had come to a total standstill.

— Stuart James, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
He had been found in the snow by the motorway heading to the airport, and after his stomach had been pumped at Sabbatsberg Hospital he was taken to Beckomberga.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026