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hwy

hwy is the abbreviation of highway.

hwy is the deliberate misspelling of why.

hwy is the pronunciation spelling of why representing speech without the wine-whine merger.

Meaning of highway

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

See all 17 meanings of highway

Meaning of why

Adverb

why (not comparable)

  1. (interrogative) Introducing a complete question.
    • Why is the sky blue?
  2. (interrogative) With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
    • Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
  3. (interrogative) Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
    • Why spend money on something you already get for free?
  4. (interrogative) Introducing a noun or other phrase.
    • Why him? Why not someone taller?
  5. (relative) For which cause, reason, or purpose.
    • That's the reason why I did that.
  6. (fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
    • That is why the sky is blue.

See all 10 meanings of why

Forms of hwy

pluralhwys
alternative formhwy.

Origin of hwy

From highway.

From why.

Questions about hwy

What is hwy the abbreviation of?
Hwy is the abbreviation of highway.

Words near hwy in the dictionary

  1. HWRC
  2. HWRCs
  3. HWRs
  4. HWs
  5. hwu
  6. hwy
  7. hwy.
  8. hwyl
  9. hwyls
  10. hwys
  11. hx

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hwy (page history and authors); highway (page history and authors); why (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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