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A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
Answer for the clue "A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic ", 10 letters:
throughway
Word definitions for throughway in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare. n. (context US English) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway , freeway , motorway , pike , state highway , superhighway , thruway ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"expressway, large toll road," 1934, American English, from through + way (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ They can be parked left or right, or have a split centre draw leaving a clear throughway .
Usage examples of throughway.
The rumbling is loud as a Pelek Baw throughway, and tremors have begun to shake the ston?
There used to be a party atmosphere out on the throughway, in the cheap lanes where mobility is low or minimal.
On the day before the opening, a gray limousine pulled off the high-level throughway and halted on an unfinished access ramp overlooking the approaches into the sports complex.
The vehicles ahead were clustered around a two-lane exit road that left the main throughway in a descending curve, flying high over the immediate surroundings and supported by slender pylons on one sideand then it stopped abruptly at a ragged edge in midair.
In falling, the bridge had swung sideways and demolished two of the supporting pillars of the main throughway, causing a section of the innermost lane to tear away.
But farther along the lower route the crowds became thicker, jostling, shouting slogans, and blocking the throughway, heedless of the blaring horns and curses from the occupants of stranded vehicles.
They crossed the intersection and walked on down the throughway for another block.
She turned and started to run back up the throughway, when suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks.
Yama stood at the beginning of a corkscrew ramp, looking straight across the throughway at the tops of sleds and carts and wagons that, spangled with lanterns, streamed past as if clinging to a sheer wall.
But as he went down the ramp, the throughway seemed to turn around him, until at last he was standing on a walkway beside the traffic and the mouth of the tunnel he had left was a hole in the curved roof above his head.
Take the right-hand branch and you will find yourself in a throughway near the Gate of Double Glory.
I took the throughway and got off an hour later at the Fairsburg exit.
That would make the road the New York Throughway, which went to the Great Lakes, to Buffalo, Niagara Fallsand Canada.
Harbour Tunnel Throughway, paid his toll, and watched in the rearview mirror as he pulled slowly into the lighted tunnel.
The buildings on either side of the narrow throughway were small, squat, and constructed out of some sort of stone.