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Major road
Answer for the clue "Major road ", 8 letters:
motorway
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Word definitions for motorway in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway , freeway , pike , state highway , superhighway , throughway , thruway ]
Wikipedia
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Motorway is a 2012 Hong Kong action film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Shawn Yue , Anthony Wong and Guo Xiaodong.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a motorway café British English (= a café beside a motorway ) ▪ They stopped at a motorway café. a motorway exit British English , a highway/freeway exit AmE: ▪ He signalled a right as he came to his freeway exit. motorway ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British Ireland New Zealand parts of Australia English) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, from motor- + way (n.).
Usage examples of motorway.
The tank smoothly bypassed land obstacles and was about to reach the motorway when - all of a sudden -something resembling a hypertrophic spider crawled out from a roadside ditch.
The ring-shaped motorway, with its elevated and underground sections, encircled Paris like a grey moat of prestressed concrete.
The marchers are coming up Woolsack Road in a thick snake, ten, twenty abreast, then turning north on to the motorway.
They bundled Martha into the back seat and drove the Aston Martin out beyond Esher and Weybridge to the country near Cobham where the M25 motorway now rings London, picking up sandwiches on the way.
They would leave the motorway to reach it, but it was a small elegant establishment, said Lady Cres swell, and quiet, in its own grounds.
They were well on their way now, in Cumbria, having travelled over three hundred miles, but the Bentley had made light of it and for the greater part of the time Raf had kept to the motorway, but now they were in charming country, with Bassenthwaite Lake on one side of them and Thomwaite Forest on the other, and the old coaching inn showing welcoming lights as they stopped before its door.
From then on the motorways, instead of being a ribbon of pleasure for Clive, unrolling with merry welcome, were concrete channels of anger, full of selfish dawdlers creeping up the middle lane with inflaming insensitivity: each licence-plated rump sneered at him personally.
And with motorways there came compulsory purchase orders and large sums paid in compensation.
The Minister has approved his appointment as Controller Motorways Midlands.
To occupy his mind and to lend some sort of credence to his title of Controller Motorways Midlands, he set about devising a strategy for dealing with the campaign to stop construction which he was convinced Lady Maud would initiate.
You seem to forget that I am Controller Motorways Midlands and what I say goes.
The more he saw of the Controller Motorways Midlands the odder he found him.
In his office at the Regional Planning Board the Controller Motorways Midlands was having second thoughts about his plan for proving that Lady Maud was a blackmailer.
If Maud had something on him, he had something on the Controller Motorways Midlands.
The Controller Motorways Midlands had just come into the caravan covered in dust and was taking off his helmet.