What does highway mean?

Definitions for highway
ˈhaɪˌweɪhigh·way

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word highway.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. highway, main roadnoun

    a major road for any form of motor transport

Wiktionary

  1. highwaynoun

    A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

  2. highwaynoun

    Any public road for vehicular traffic.

  3. Etymology: From heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from heahweg, corresponding to :

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Highwaynoun

    Great road; publick path.

    Etymology: high and way.

    So few there be
    That chuse the narrow path, or seek the right:
    All keep the broad highway, and take delight
    With many rather for to go astray. Fairy Queen, b. i.

    Two inscriptions give a great light to the histories of Appius, who made the highway, and of Fabius the dictator. Addison.

    Ent’ring on a broad highway,
    Where power and titles scatter’d lay,
    He strove to pick up all he found. Jonathan Swift.

    I could mention more trades we have lost, and are in the highway to lose. Josiah Child, on Trade.

ChatGPT

  1. highway

    A highway is a main public road or thoroughfare designed for fast and heavy traffic, typically connecting cities and towns. It is larger than a street or road and often has multiple lanes to facilitate high-speed travel. Highways may be controlled-access with no stopping permitted, called motorways or freeways, or may allow for direct access to the properties beside them.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Highwaynoun

    a road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare

Wikidata

  1. Highway

    A highway is any public road or other public way on land; the term exists in distinction to waterway. In North American and Australian English, the term frequently implies a major road such as a controlled-access highway or an arterial, generally under the control of a state or provincial agency instead of a local road authority. In British English, highway is primarily a legal term, and normal usage implies roads, while legal usage covers any route or path with a public right of access, including footpaths etc. The term has led to several related derived terms, including highway system, highway code, and highway patrol.

Editors Contribution

  1. highway

    A type of road.

    The highway flowed freely.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 18, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'highway' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4352

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'highway' in Nouns Frequency: #2406

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of highway in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of highway in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of highway in a Sentence

  1. John Keats:

    Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

  2. Cullen Stanley:

    I first saw something about three hundred yards down the road moving fast towards me that obviously wasn’t a vehicle, as it got closer it looked like a horse but my brain was telling me that it couldn’t be [a] horse because I’m on an interstate highway.

  3. Marc Besch:

    The Volkswagen did not show a characteristic reduction of nitrogen oxide pollution levels during highway driving.

  4. Pete Buttigieg:

    This my way or the highway idea, that either you're for kicking everybody off their private plans in four years or you're for business as usual, it's just not true.

  5. Hugo Castro:

    A tanker truck pulled up that evening and started spraying water on the road, for a moment it felt like the highway was covered in blood. I turned away and put down more crosses.

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