high road
UK/ˈhaɪ ɹəʊd/US/ˈhaɪ ˌɹoʊd/
high road noun: a main road or highway.
Noun
high road (plural high roads)
- A main road or highway.
- Near-synonyms: highway (variably 'main' or not), high street (precisely coordinate)
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- Synonyms:
- highway, high street
- A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable.
- take the high road
- The high road of public service and the low road of political advantage seem inextricably intertwined.1982 November 22, Thomas Griffith, “A Tilt Called Cynicism”, in Time
- Antonyms:
- low road
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, road.
high road meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
high road in Hindi
- high road, main road, highway
- शाहराह śāhrāh
high road in Tamil
- நெடுஞ்சாலை
high road in Urdu
- کھلا راستہ, شاہراہ
high road in Kannada
- ರಾಜಬೀದಿ, ರಾಜಮಾರ್ಗ, ಮುಖ್ಯರಸ್ತೆ, ಪ್ರಮುಖಪಥ, ಸರಳಮಾರ್ಗ, ನೇರಮಾರ್ಗ
Examples of high road in a sentence
- Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.Nov. 1, 1878, Rev. Miles Greenwood, “North China”, in The Mission Field, number 275, page 544:
- There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in The Black Arrow:
Synonyms of high road
Antonyms
Forms of high road
| plural | high roads |
|---|---|
| alternative form | highroad |
Questions about high road
- What does high road mean?
- High road means a main road or highway.
- What is high road in Hindi?
- High road in Hindi is शाहराह (śāhrāh). See High road meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use high road in a sentence?
- Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.
- What part of speech is high road?
- High road is a noun.
- How do you pronounce high road?
- High road is pronounced /ˈhaɪ ɹəʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of high road?
- The plural of high road is high roads.
Words near high road in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: high road (page history and authors); शाहराह (Hindi) (page history and authors); high road (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); high road (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); high road (Kannada 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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