HIGHWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highway mean? 

• HIGHWAY (noun)
  The noun HIGHWAY has 1 sense:

1. a major road for any form of motor transport

  Familiarity information: HIGHWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major road for any form of motor transport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

highway; main road

Hypernyms ("highway" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "highway"):

interchange (a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams)

traffic lane (a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "highway"):

arterial road (a major or main route)

beltway; bypass; ring road; ringway (a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center)

divided highway; dual carriageway (a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions)

expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway (a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic)

highroad; trunk road (a highway)

interstate; interstate highway (one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States)

Instance hyponyms:

Appian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC)

Flaminian Way (an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC; extends north from Rome to cisalpine Gaul)

 Context examples 

Accidents on streets, roads, and highways involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or vehicles.

(Automobile Accident, NCI Thesaurus)

“In cities, we’ll look for wide roads or highways and use these as barriers to generate relatively isolated areas for treatment,” Xi told.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

This person may be unfair or exerting too much of a scorched-earth method of negotiation (This person may say, “It’s my way or the highway.”)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The road is an important highway, and there are usually people there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lawn is thirty yards across, and is only divided from the highway by a low wall with an iron rail above it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have myself been the king's man for thirty years or more, but I have not been wont to halloo about it on a peaceful highway.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The results, are key for the study of long-term dune migration, which threatens shipping channels, increases desertification, and can bury infrastructure such as highways.

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

Other common phobias involve tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, animals and blood.

(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

When the day dawned, therefore, the boy put his fifty talers into his pocket, and went forth on the great highway, and continually said to himself: If I could but shudder!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)