Synonyms of highways

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of highways

The devices are prohibited on highways, but are allowed to cross them. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 13 Nov. 2026

Police responded forcefully with batons, tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds blocking highways. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026

The money goes to the North Carolina Department of Transportation for beautification projects along the state highways. — Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2026

The next day, historic flooding tore through parts of the region — washing out highways, triggering rock and mudslides and cutting off communities that have spent more than a week navigating lengthy detours. — Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026

Such structures can reconnect habitats divided by highways, but researchers said crossings alone do not prevent animals from entering traffic elsewhere. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026

If El Niño brings storms that damage the road again, history suggests Caltrans will fix it, seemingly stuck in an endless loop of patchwork repairs for one of California’s most challenging mountain highways to maintain. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

People made peace with power lines, highways and factories when those things stopped being built near them and started being built with them. — Phillip Marangella, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Their councilman says Amazon Prime Air has responded to the outcry by rerouting 70 percent of drone flights elsewhere, although since the drones are not allowed to fly over highways, that likely means other residential neighborhoods. — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2026