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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishheiȝwai,heiȝwei, fromOld Englishhēahweġ(“main road, highway”), corresponding tohigh +‎way. Comparehighgate,high street,high road.

Cognate withScotsheaway,heway,hieway,hichway,heichway(“highway”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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highway (pluralhighways)

  2. A mainpublicroad, especially a multi-lane, high-speedthoroughfare.
    Hypernyms:road,route
    Hyponyms:expressway,motorway,superhighway
    Coordinate terms:back road,back street
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 7, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      Thehighway 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 remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
  3. (law, rail transport) Any public road.
    Hypernyms:road,route
  4. (figurative) Away; apath that leads to a certain destiny.
    You're on ahighway to greatness.
    • 1979, “Highway to Hell”, inHighway to Hell, performed byAC/DC:
      I'm on thehighway to hell
    • 2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, inThe Guardian, UK:
      So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
  5. (archaic) Aroad that ismajor (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.
    Coordinate term:byway
  6. (computing)Synonym ofbus(“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

Derived terms

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Translations

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main public road

Verb

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highway (third-person singular simple presenthighways,present participlehighwaying,simple past and past participlehighwayed)

  1. To travel on a highway

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