highway

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

high·way [highway highways] BrE [ˈhaɪweɪ] NAmE [ˈhaɪweɪ] noun
1. (especially NAmE)a main road for travelling long distances, especially one connecting and going through cities and towns
•an interstate highway
• Highway patrol officers closed the road.
2. (BrE, formal)a public road
• A parked car was obstructing the highway.
more at my way or the highway at ↑way _n.
Idiom: ↑highway robbery

Thesaurus:
highway noun C (especially AmE)
•The hotel is located off Highway 21.
road • |BrE motorway • • dual carriageway • |AmE interstate (highway) • • freeway • • turnpike • • divided highway •
on a road/highway/motorway/dual carriageway/interstate/freeway/turnpike/divided highway
get on/off the road/highway/interstate/freeway
join/leave the road/motorway
a stretch of road/highway/motorway/freeway/dual carriageway/divided highway
Highway, freeway, interstate or turnpike? Highway is the most general of these terms and can mean any main road connecting and going through cities in the US. A turnpike is road that you have to pay to use. An interstate is a road with two or more lanes of traffic in either direction. This is called a freeway in the Western States. The same road may be referred to in different ways in different parts of the country.

Example Bank:
•A blowout at highway speeds can be dangerous.
•He took highway 314 heading north.
•He travels the highways and byways of Texas.
•He was fined for obstructing the public highway.
•I used to travel that highway with my family.
•I'm still learning how to navigate the information highway.
•Once you hit the highway, the only services are at Eagle Plains.
•They tore along the highway.
•We pulled off the highway and stopped for a break.
•a four-lane highway
•the highway to Sydney
•A long stretch of coastal highway was flooded.
•All citizens have the right to use the public highway
•Learn the Highway Code before you start to learn to drive.
•Plans were being made for the construction of a new interstate highway system.
•The hotel is located off Highway 21.
•There is a Highways Department proposal for new traffic islands.
•There's a 55 mph speed limit on most highways.
•We soon reached the highway interchange.