What is another word for motorway?
Synonyms for motorway
ˈmoʊ tərˌweɪmo·tor·way
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Wiktionary
motorwaynoun
Synonyms:
freeway, controlled-access highwaymotorwaynoun
A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway.
Synonyms:
controlled-access highway, freeway
Princeton's WordNet
expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruwaynoun
a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
Synonyms:
throughway, thruway, expressway, freeway, state highway, information superhighway, superhighway, pike
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "motorway":
highway, freeway, autoroute, expressway, motorways, 'autoroute, hwy, highways, interstate, superhighway
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3246 | highway | |
#7978 | hwy | |
#8415 | interstate | |
#9194 | highways | |
#9961 | pike | |
#15410 | freeway | |
#22030 | motorway | |
#24795 | expressway | |
#49942 | motorways | |
#54632 | superhighway | |
#68476 | autoroute | |
#75043 | thruway |
How to use motorway in a sentence?
Chief Executive Gianfranco Battisti:
Exploring international markets is an important part of our industrial plan, in the world there are a lot of opportunities to develop motorway and railway infrastructures and we have the skills to do that.
I think a good case in point is Seoul, in South Korea -- they actually took out an entire motorway (in the city center) and put the river in there with trees and plants, in Manila, they are establishing miniature parks wherever they can -- crossroads, along the railway, old industrial areas -- there's a lot of urban space that is wasteland, so there are areas that can be converted.
It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.
Translations for motorway
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- автомагистралаBulgarian
- autopistaCatalan, Valencian
- dálniceCzech
- trafforddWelsh
- motorvejDanish
- AutobahnGerman
- αυτοκινητόδρομοςGreek
- aŭtovojoEsperanto
- autopista, autovíaSpanish
- maanteeEstonian
- autobideBasque
- اتوبانPersian
- moottoritieFinnish
- autorouteFrench
- autodykWestern Frisian
- mótarbhealachIrish
- autoestradaGalician
- autópályaHungarian
- jalan bebas hambatan terkendaliIndonesian
- hraðbrautIcelandic
- autostradaItalian
- автомагистральKazakh
- autoviaLatin
- AutobunnLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- automagistralėLithuanian
- automaģistrāleLatvian
- lebuh rayaMalay
- motorveiNorwegian
- snelweg, autowegDutch
- motorvegNorwegian Nynorsk
- motorveiNorwegian
- autorotaOccitan
- autostradaPolish
- autoestradaPortuguese
- autostradăRomanian
- автомагистральRussian
- diaľnicaSlovak
- avtocestaSlovene
- motorvägSwedish
- otoyolTurkish
- автомагістральUkrainian
- đường cao tốcVietnamese
- otorote, otostråde, otovoyeWalloon
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