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arterial road

arterial road noun: a major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).

Noun

arterial road (plural arterial roads)

  1. A major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).
    • The road, narrow and in poor repair, was almost deserted, all the heavy traffic passing by the wider arterial road which ran importantly inland from town to town, despising the windings of the coast with its few scattered hamlets.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase
    Synonyms:
    arterial, arterial route, arterial street

arterial road meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

arterial road in Tamil

பெருவழி, நாளத்தெரு

arterial road in Indonesian

A major thoroughfare
jalan arteri, jalan besar

Synonyms of arterial road

Forms of arterial road

pluralarterial roads

Questions about arterial road

What does arterial road mean?
Arterial road means a major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).
What is arterial road in Tamil?
Arterial road in Tamil is பெருவழி, நாளத்தெரு. See Arterial road meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is arterial road?
Arterial road is a noun.
What is the plural of arterial road?
The plural of arterial road is arterial roads.

Words near arterial road in the dictionary

  1. arterial
  2. arterial blood gas
  3. arterial blood gases
  4. arterial line
  5. arterial lines
  6. arterial road
  7. arterial roads
  8. arterial street
  9. arterial streets
  10. arterialisation
  11. arterialisations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arterial road (page history and authors); arterial road (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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