Synonyms for motorway
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Noun
1. Highway — A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for…
highway, expressway UK NZ, autoroute, parkway, superhighway, pike, thruway US, throughway UK
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Definitions
- n. 1
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
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Forms
- Plural
- motorways → highways, expressways, autoroutes, parkways…
Example sentences
- highway How can we reduce the number of highway accidents?
- parkway Stefan never takes that parkway at night.
- superhighway Tom took the on-ramp to the information superhighway.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| motorway | falling | |
| highway | falling | |
| parkway | falling | |
| superhighway | rising | |
| autoroute | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- pike1
- 7 letters
- highway2, parkway2, thruway2
- 8 letters
- speedway2
- 9 letters
- autoroute
- 10 letters
- expressway3, throughway2
- 12 letters
- superhighway4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (highway2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- autoroute
- Italiano
- autostrada