highways

noun

plural of highway
as in roads
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 highways The two highways are major entry points to the center of Kansas City and downtown. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026 For residents like Smith, the idea of transforming space above one of Atlanta's busiest highways offers a glimpse of what downtown could become. — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Steam engines came into common use in the nineteenth century and electricity in the early twentieth, but their full potential was not realized before the completion of railways, highways, and power grids decades later. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 This happened in 2006 on Mount Hood and Mount Rainier and closed a number of highways. — Andrew Fountain, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026 In Chile in 2024, several hundred demonstrators burned tires and blocked coastal highways and railway tracks to protest the early closure of the fishing season, a move partly driven by overfishing tied to fishmeal. — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The red dye also allows a road inspector to detect whether a trucker is evading taxes by using the fuel on highways. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 It’s built for the wide, sprawling highways of North America. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026 Parcels of agricultural land surrounded on a certain percentage of their borders by homes, businesses, highways or land zoned for future development can apply for the designation. — Nico Rivero, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highways
  1. roads
  2. freeways
  3. thoroughfares
  4. streets
  5. expressways
  6. roadways
  7. routes
  8. boulevards
Noun
  • Most mountain roads should remain wet, but slick conditions are possible above 9,000 feet, especially after dark.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Critics also worried that an unplanned surge in housing could strain schools, roads and other infrastructure.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • By the time the coffee shop building was going up at the end of the route in 1959, Fresco said, interstate freeways were already beginning to usurp Route 66’s role and the Santa Monica route of Interstate 10 had been plotted.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Director Christopher Nolan uses the premise to stage spectacular sequences where cars reverse down freeways at high speed, cause and effect goes topsy-turvy, and fights are just, well, weird.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of freeways
Noun
  • The resulting long lineups snake out from working gas stations into the main thoroughfares of Moscow and other Russian cities.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Rancho Cordova was awarded more than $3 million in grants from a local agency for two road improvement projects on major city thoroughfares.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • The force, which rose to a peak of about 5,000 troops over the summer, has supported arrest operations, patrolled city streets and neighborhoods, and participated in cleanup efforts.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Video from the scene obtained by CNN showed ambulances rushing through narrow streets and crowds gathered outside the school building.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • The center sits near the Dolphin and Palmetto expressways and Interstate 95, adjacent to the Waterford Blue Lagoon Business District.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of expressways
Noun
  • Low-lying roadways are likely to be flooded, requiring barricades.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Less than one percent of Houston’s roadways, for example, fell within the sight pictures of the city’s nearly 4,000 ALPRs in June 2024.
    — Rafael A. Mangual, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of roadways
Noun
  • One of the first to try on that hat was the agency's Perseverance rover on Mars, which used machine learning to plan and complete its first drive on the Red Planet using routes mapped out by generative AI in December 2025.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Throughout the war, Russia has repeatedly bombarded Ukraine’s Black Sea and Danube river ports, leaving Kyiv increasingly reliant on alternative routes to get its grain exports to markets in Africa and the Middle East.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of routes
Noun
  • Though many travelers think of the Santa Monica Pier as the end of the route, its official terminus from 1935 on was at the intersection of Lincoln and Olympic boulevards, where Mel’s now stands.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Visitors often still liken the city’s walkable streets and historic architecture to European boulevards.
    — Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of boulevards

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“Highways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highways. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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