HIGHROAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highroad mean? 

• HIGHROAD (noun)
  The noun HIGHROAD has 1 sense:

1. a highway

  Familiarity information: HIGHROAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHROAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

highroad; trunk road

Hypernyms ("highroad" is a kind of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Then he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the highroad, where all traces were lost.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know what I have in me; I know what literature is, now; I know the average rot that is poured out by a lot of little men; and I know that at the end of two years I shall be on the highroad to success.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are grounds round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about a hundred yards from the front door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had been lying in an angle of the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)