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highway

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noun/ˈhaɪweɪ//ˈhɑjwɛj/
  1. 1

    A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

    • The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still rema
  2. 2

    Any public road.

  3. 3

    A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.figuratively

    • You're on a highway to greatness.
  4. 4

    A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.archaic

  5. 5

    Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

verb/ˈhaɪweɪ//ˈhɑjwɛj/
  1. 1

    To travel on a highway

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