FREEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freeway mean? 

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

1. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "freeway"):

carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freeway"):

autobahn (an expressway in a German-speaking country)

autostrada (an expressway in an Italian-speaking country)

toll road; turnpike (an expressway on which tolls are collected)

 Context examples 

Contact of a tooth or restoration such that it encrouches on the interocclusal freeway space.

(Hyperocclusion, NCI Thesaurus)

A few studies have found a higher risk of autism and of lower cognitive functioning in children living near freeways, but results of studies about how prenatal and early childhood exposure to air pollution might affect development have been inconsistent.

(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)