Synonyms for HIGHWAY
ˈhaɪˌweɪhigh·way

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1. highway

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 5 votes

1. highway, main roadnoun

   a major road for any form of motor transport

   Synonyms:
   highway, main road

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1. highwaynoun

   Synonyms:
   high-road, public road

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1. List of paraphrases for "highway":

   motorway, road, freeway, expressway, highways, autoroute, roads, hwy, superhighway, route, motorways, on-road, rapid, interstate, cty, roadway, routier

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1. Chris Edwards:

   People will read in the local newspaper that the local highway expansion or the bus station or the local rail system that the local politicians had promised would only cost $ 100 million and it ends up costing $ 200 million.

2. Orrin Hatch:

   I prefer not to increase taxes, but to me that's a user fee. People who use the highways ought to pay for them. And that's a small price to pay to have the best highway system in the world.

3. Chuck Canterbury:

   It's almost a radical rhetoric causing officers to say, 'Wait a second, I'm out here to serve the public. I saved a little old lady from a purse snatching. I gave CPR on the highway and saved somebody. Now, I'm a villain?'.

4. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   I'm just not going to pound the table on these things and say my way or the highway, i mean, I will on some things, but I better be careful about that. Because you know what -- I actually think about what it would be like to be president.

5. Orrin Hatch:

   To get the highway bill paid for, it would be something that could not be done in this short time frame.