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M-way

M-way is the abbreviation of motorway.

Meaning of motorway

Noun

motorway (plural motorways)

  1. (Ireland, New-South-Wales, New Zealand, UK) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
    • All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.1895 October, “Real Estate”, in California Banker's Magazine, page 429
  2. (US) A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
    • In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.2018, Paul R. Wonning, A Year of Indiana History Stories, volume 1, Greensburg, Indiana: Mossy Feet Books, page 250
    Synonyms:
    speedway

Forms of M-way

pluralM-ways
alternative formM way

Questions about M-way

What is M-way the abbreviation of?
M-way is the abbreviation of motorway.

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  4. M-theory
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  8. m-wide
  9. m-word
  10. m-words
  11. m-xylene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: M-way (page history and authors); motorway (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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