TURNPIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turnpike mean? 

• TURNPIKE (noun)
  The noun TURNPIKE has 2 senses:

1. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

2. an expressway on which tolls are collected

  Familiarity information: TURNPIKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNPIKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

gate (a movable barrier in a fence or wall)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An expressway on which tolls are collected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

toll road; turnpike

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

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

 Context examples 

One fellow wouldn’t let us through his turnpike, and Charlie hopped off and had his coat off in a minute.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Traddles, whom I have taken up by appointment at the turnpike, presents a dazzling combination of cream colour and light blue; and both he and Mr. Dick have a general effect about them of being all gloves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After making every possible inquiry on that side London, Colonel F. came on into Hertfordshire, anxiously renewing them at all the turnpikes, and at the inns in Barnet and Hatfield, but without any success—no such people had been seen to pass through.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)