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highway

noun

ˈhī-ˌwā How to pronounce highway (audio)
Definition of highwaynext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city

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Recent Examples of highway South Florida motorists routinely saw police officers hurtling along highways at extraordinary speeds without lights, sirens or any apparent emergency. — Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 Just as interstate highways need to be wider and smoother than typical country roads, railroad tracks that handle faster trains require more robust engineering and safety features than those that handle slow-moving freight. — Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 Toyota's 2027 Prius achieves a whopping 57 miles per gallon in the city and 56 miles per gallon on the highway. — Charles Singh, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Goff — who is well known in the state for highway billboards and TV ads often featuring celebrities — is seeking $350,000 through a prejudgment remedy. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for highway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highway
  1. road
  2. freeway
  3. street
  4. expressway
  5. thoroughfare
  6. route
  7. roadway
  8. boulevard
Noun
  • Tariffs on cement, road salt and hospital pads were removed and replaced with duties on all-terrain vehicles, some cheeses and motorboats.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Some might be taken on the road and featured in live appearances, or at least have their stories recorded and included in campaign ads.
    — Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • Broadcom paid its former landlord, PRP Real Assets, $325 million for the 660,000-square-foot research campus near the junction of the 5 and 405 freeways in one of the largest office sales in Southern California in recent years.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In July, some 300 drones rose beside the 101 freeway and hovered for 15 minutes, forming Angelyne’s face and a telephone number in the night sky.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of freeway
Noun
  • On Thursday, demonstrators, mostly women, in the Ekurhuleni district where the bodies were found, marched in the streets, donning black.
    — Rael Ombuor The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • AmaWaterways brings guests front row to an exclusive jazz performance in the streets here, where the acoustics haven’t changed in 400 years.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • Bikes are not allowed to on freeways or expressways, and cyclists cannot pass through tolls unless the signs nearby dictate otherwise.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of expressway
Noun
  • Comella paid his fare at Canal Street — the driver would go no farther — and walked south on west Broadway, a thoroughfare of million-dollar lofts, to a point three blocks from the Trade Center.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • On the busy thoroughfare of Rosecrans Avenue, offices are seeing an influx of white-collar service firms full of lawyers, accountants and bankers.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
Noun
  • Dependency has overtaken intrusion as the most common route to an outage.
    — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The situation can be extra frustrating in 2026, as most carriers have significantly raised the cost of checking luggage on domestic and short-haul international routes to an average of $45 for the first bag.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of route
Noun
  • On Tuesday the city of Malibu reported a sinkhole in a beachfront property driveway on Sea Level Drive, a roadway that abuts the ocean.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The pandemic brought a huge spike in roadway fatalities on the state’s roads, which peaked in 2022.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of roadway
Noun
  • There were beautiful boulevards, sweeping bridges over the Moskva River, wide Stalin-era avenues lined with imposing granite buildings, and quiet nineteenth-century neighborhoods of pastel-colored mansions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The developers have sought an exception to rules around how much parking can front a nearby boulevard, and will be expected to provide extra landscaping and screening to buffer the parking from nearby properties.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of boulevard

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“Highway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highway. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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