highways

Noun

highway (plural highways)

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.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
2. Any public road.
3. (figuratively) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
   • You're on a highway to greatness.
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”).

   Synonyms:

   bus

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