Synonyms of expressways

expressways

noun

plural of expressway

as in highways

a passage cleared for public vehicular travel

a baffling maze of high-speed expressways encircles the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• highways
• freeways
• roads
• thoroughfares
• streets
• routes
• carriageways
• roadways
• boulevards
• turnpikes
• arteries
• arterials
• interstates
• causeways
• drives
• thruways
• ways
• avenues
• motorways
• lanes
• parkways
• pike
• rows
• passes
• high roads
• superhighways
• corridors
• autobahns
• beltways
• traces
• alleys
• trails
• drags
• byways
• bypasses
• switchbacks
• autoroutes
• alleyways
• branches
• tracks
• ring roads
• crossroads
• secondary roads
• backstreets
• side streets
• Main Streets
• through streets
• side roads
• dual carriageways
• circles
• autostradas
• dead ends
• places
• corniches
• high streets
• cul-de-sacs
• laneways
• mews
• bystreets
• shunpikes
• closes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of expressways

Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026

In November 2016, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure B, a 30-year, half-cent countywide sales tax to enhance transit, highways, expressways, and active transportation (bicycles, pedestrians, and complete streets). — Phan Khang, Mercury News, 18 May 2026

These expressways would rapidly move large volumes of vehicles in and out of the central business district without using local roads. — Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2026

The sports complex in South Philly is surrounded by a number of main roads, interstates and expressways, including I-76, I-95, the Delaware Expressway and South Broad Street. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 6 May 2026

This includes multilane expressways where cars speed alongside, and in some cases above, the water. — Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026

Steel, concrete, traffic jams, and expressways occupy the greens where some of Miami’s earliest golfers played. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026

Initially, the vehicles will not drive on any expressways and interstate highways and will only service a 60-mile area that extends from west of downtown southward along the I-4 corridor and Florida’s Turnpike. — Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026

Some sections of expressways were also closed, Kihara said. — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025