highway

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
18
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈhaɪweɪ/

Definition of highway

17 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
    “The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.”
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noun

  1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
    “The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.”
  2. Any public road.
  3. (figuratively)A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
    “You're on a highway to greatness.”
    “I'm on the highway to hell”
    “So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.”
  4. (archaic)A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.
  5. Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

verb

  1. To travel on a highway

name

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Etymology

From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

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