Synonyms of freeways

freeways

noun

plural of freeway

as in highways

a passage cleared for public vehicular travel

a new driver who's nervous about driving on the freeway for the first time

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of freeways

For decades, the powers that be have burdened the Eastside with freeways, warehouses, public corruption, unsightly developments that have brought on gentrification and civic negligence bordering on the criminal. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Another lithium-ion fire in 2024 forced authorities to close one of the major freeways leading out of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach for a day. — Tom Wait, CBS News, 24 June 2026

Oscar Sanchez-Muñoz, of Independence, Missouri, allegedly shot several people indiscriminately along freeways and roadways the evening of June 16, Kansas City police said. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 June 2026

Many of our readers may remember that old promise that by 1973, our dear tollways would become freeways. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

With this growth came the construction of new factories, freeways and high-rise condos, while devastated wetlands once inhabited by cranes were systematically drained and repurposed for human use, never to return. — The Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

Waymo had been serving public riders on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 18 June 2026

And much of their Finals journey was overshadowed by the OJ Simpson case that began with a white Ford Bronco slowly driving down Southern California freeways in the middle of the opening game. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 14 June 2026

To voice their support for telework, state workers have regularly held rallies in opposition to Newsom’s return-to-office order and erected billboards along freeways to support their cause. — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026