MOTORWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motorway mean? 

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

1. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTORWAY (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 ("motorway" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "motorway"):

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 "motorway"):

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)