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Synonyms for turnpike

Most common

tollgate tollbar toll road pike

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Gate — A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid

gate, turnstile, tollgate, tollbar

2. Toll road — A toll road, especially a toll expressway. In some places the clipped version, pike, is used for roads…

toll road, pike, road

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.

  2. n. 2

    A toll road, especially a toll expressway. In some places the clipped version, pike, is used for roads without tolls.

Related words

Phrases
turnpike sailor

Forms

Plural
turnpikes → gates, turnstiles, tollgates, tollbars…

Example sentences

  • tollgate We're coming up to a tollgate.
  • pike Tom caught a pike that was sixty centimetres long.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
turnpikefalling
tollgatesteady
tollbarsteady
pikefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
road1, gate1, pike1
7 letters
tollbar
8 letters
tollgate
9 letters
turnstile2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (turnstile2 = 2 syllables).