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arterial roads

arterial roads is the plural of arterial road.

Meaning of arterial road

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

Questions about arterial roads

What is arterial roads the plural of?
Arterial roads is the plural of arterial road.

Words near arterial roads in the dictionary

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

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