DUAL CARRIAGEWAY Synonyms: 55 Similar Words

dual carriageway

noun

Definition of dual carriageway

chiefly British

as in high road

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Recent Examples of dual carriageway Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads. — The Economist, 23 May 2020 The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. — Fox News, 16 July 2018

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Noun

In anticipation of high road traffic on game day, local officials will extend the closure of Tasman Drive.

— Noe Padilla, USA Today, 28 Jan. 2026
Unfortunately, there is no high road to take here when the president and the Republicans thrive in the ditch.

— DP Opinion, Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2025

Definition of high road

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 global flight tracking service provider Flightradar24 on Friday said the plane crashed into the CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, which rises more than 1,700 feet (528 meters), just east of a major ring road in a cluster of skyscrapers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 June 2026
Authorities also said a crowd briefly blocked the main ring road surrounding the city before police dispersed the gathering.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026

Definition of ring road

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

An Arkansas State Police trooper was captured on dashcam footage yanking the passenger of a vehicle by his hair and punching him in the face after a high-speed chase that ended in the streets of Blytheville.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2026
There’s no denying that the fall 2026 runways made a strong case for color; even the street style scene is on board, slipping into colorful shoes and sporting handbags in a variety of vibrant shades—baby pink, chartreuse, and cobalt.

— Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of street

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

Mamdani’s alternative would revisit the 2006 strategy by threading an elevated bypass into the narrow slot between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
An additional bypass lane will run from Columbia Heights, over the Brooklyn Bridge approach, to the Manhattan Bridge.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of bypass

Noun

The island connects to the mainland by a causeway that gets covered by water at high tide, so it is cut off for part of each day.

— Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Amador Stretching south from Casco Viejo towards the entrance to the Panama Canal, Amador is a causeway connecting what were once three islands to the rest of the city.

— Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of causeway

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