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Answer for the clue "Road with ramps ", 7 letters:
highway

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Word definitions for highway in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heahweg "main road from one town to another;" see high (adj.) in sense of "main" + way (n.). High street (Old English heahstræte ) was the word before 17c. applied to highways and main roads, whether in the country or town, especially one of ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Highway is a Nepali film produced by Aadi Productions in association with Louverture Films. Highway was officially selected for and screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . It is also said that Highway will be taken to the Toronto Film ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a major road for any form of motor transport [syn: main road ]

Usage examples of highway.

Three Rivers, a lumber town about thirty miles of winding highway to the northwest of Abney, just outside the national forest.

The highways of the Achaemenids -- yes, and which before them had trembled to the tramplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.

But in 1765, the same year little Abigail was born and Adams found himself chosen surveyor of highways in Braintree, he was swept by events into sudden public prominence.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

Brewer, through a big cloverleaf, past the brick hulks of two old hosiery mills, along a three-lane highway where in these last years several roadside restaurants have begun proclaiming themselves as Pennsylvania Dutch, with giant plaster Amishmen and neon hex signs.

Apparently they drove west into Utah because about daylight a Utah Highway Patrolman tries to stop a speeding truck on Route 262 west of Aneth, and they shoot holes in his radiator.

Potts had drawn for Leaphorn on a sheet of notepaper took him across the San Juan down the asphalt of Highway 35 into the Aneth Oil Field, and thence onto a dirt road which led up the slopes of Casa Del Eco Mesa.

The police posted a guard on the highway, in case the Angels got restless and tried to get back to town, but there was no way to seal the camp off entirely, nor any provision for handling local innocents who might be drawn to the scene out of curiosity or other, darker reasons not mentioned in police training manuals.

Marina Beach, the rest of the Angels were being rounded up and driven north along Highway 156 toward the county line.

The shopping center and highway traffic almost dulled the appassionata at the next-door drive-in.

She barreled along the desert highway, dodging busses, cars, giant boulders launched by her archenemy, Wile E.

There was not a single good highway that went straight through the Ardennes in the direction in which the Germans wanted to go.

I can tell, your Majesty, next summer when you travel to Vo Astur, a group of men are going to try to kill you somewhere on the highway.

The two patrolmen were taking the shortest way back into the city centre, along the state highway that parallels the A14 autostrada from Ancona and the Adriatic coast, looping through the unlovely dormitory suburbs to the north of Bologna to connect with the spinal cord of the Ai.

On 13 April 1945, the Third Battalion, advancing along Highway 9 from Monglo Hill toward Baguio, employed medium tanks against enemy positions in caves along the road, and reached the west slope of Hairpin Hill after an advance of 1500 yards against moderate resistance.