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German superhighway
Answer for the clue "German superhighway ", 8 letters:
autobahn
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Autobahn " is a song by German electronic band Kraftwerk , composed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the band, with Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is co-produced by Conny Plank , and was the band's first track to use sung lyrics. Recorded ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expressway in a German-speaking country
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1937, German, from auto "motor car, automobile" + bahn "path, road," from Middle High German ban , bane "way, road," literally "strike" (as a swath cut through), from PIE *gwhen- "to strike, kill" (see bane ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
autobahn \autobahn\ n. [German: equivalent of auto + road.] an expressway or superhighway in a German-speaking country.
Usage examples of autobahn.
The first snows had started, whistling in off the North Sea, slicing in flurries across the wide stretches of the autobahn as it swept south of Bremen and into the flat plain of Lower Saxony.
Despite the wind and the descending darkness, he enjoyed driving down the autobahn in bad weather.
When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.
Here he followed the branchoff to the right from autobahn E4 to E8 and the border with East Germany.
To the right and left of the autobahn a drive cut into the pine forests, and two soldiers in winter clothing, each with a battery-powered illuminated baton, stood at the entrance to each, waiting to summon something hidden in the forests across the road.
Motti kept the blindfold on him until they were well clear of Munich and heading north up autobahn E 6 toward Nuremberg and Bayreuth.
There was no autobahn between Nuremberg and Stuttgart in those days, and on a bright sunny day the road leading across the lush plain of Franconia and into the wooded hills and valleys of WUrttemberg would have been picturesque.
It was almost four in the morning when he climbed into the Jaguar, and half past the hour before he had made his way back to the autobahn leading north for Heilbronn and Mannheim.
It had started to rain, an evil sleet running in curtains across the slippery autobahn, and the mesmeric effect of the windshield wipers almost sent him to sleep.
As it tore down the autobahn toward Frankfurt, the bumping caused the heavy springs above the front wheels to retract slightly, crushing the small bulb between the jaws of the bomb trigger to fragments of glass.
The Odessa chief was brusque and irritable, for it was long past the time he should have heard on the news of a sports car being blown to pieces, apparently by an exploding gas tank, on the autobahn south of OsnabrUck.
Although he and the Old Man had been friends before he killed himself on the autobahn, there had never been an invitation to the house for Netty.
A66 Autobahn to Schultheim, where it turned into Highway 40, and continued on that until he came to the A7 Autobahn to Fulda.
March Walvis stirred restlessly inside the rear of the stretch Mercedes which was speeding along the autobahn carrying them to the castle in the mountains whose jagged peaks loomed ahead.
By mischance he had come out on to the autobahn, returning to Munich, from the wrong exit.