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highway definition

high·way (hī′wā′)

noun

  1. any road freely open to everyone; public road
  2. a main road; thoroughfare
  3. a main route by land or water
  4. a direct way to some objective

Etymology: ME higewege; see high & way

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highway Synonyms

highway

n.

roadway, parkway, superhighway, freeway, turnpike, thruway, expressway, interstate, interstate highway, motorway (British), dual carriageway (British), limited access highway, toll road, skyway, post road, state highway, national highway, Autobahn (German); two-lane highway, four-lane highway, six-lane highway, etc.; see also road 1.


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highway Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • obstruct: Later on the monday we had one arrest for obstructing the highway.

Adjective modifier

  • interstate: Ride With Me - Large collection of original audio programs on travel in the United States with special emphasis on traveling interstate highways.

Modifies a noun

  • robbery: Perhaps this man is an advocate of highway robbery?

Noun used with modifier

  • four-lane: The aim of this scheme is to build a new four-lane highway.
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highway quotes

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err therein.

-Bible (Old Testament)

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

-Carlyle,Thomas

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