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autoroute

n. 1 (context in Quebec English) An expressway, freeway, motorway or highway. 2 An expressway in any francophone country.

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Autoroute

Autoroute may refer to the following:

  • Controlled-access highway, particularly in French-speaking countries
  • Routing (electronic design automation), when routes to wires in a design are automatically assigned
  • Microsoft AutoRoute, European name for Microsoft Streets & Trips, which helps plan trips by automobile

Usage examples of "autoroute".

I had drunkenly labored for many minutes to roll to the crest, and looking out over the downhill slope I see a small hunched woman in what I am thinking is a metal hat far below at the bottom, attempting the crossing of the Swiss Provincial Autoroute at the bottom, in the middle of the Provincial Autoroute, this woman, standing and staring in the terror at one of the hated long and shiny many-wheeled trucks of our paper invaders, bearing down upon her at high speeds in the hurry to come despoil part of the Swiss land.

From its sharp hairpins you can see the Mediterranean on a fine day, or at least the shiny new autoroute that swings inland at Cannes and goes past Aix and Avignon.

I heard the buzz of traffic speeding past on the autoroute, and realized that we were out of sight I struggled with the door catch, but the car had warped enough to jam the door.

Two or three minutes off the Brussel-Ostend autoroute, or five from the train line to Ghent and Brugge.

You did it normally and innocently, on the autoroute to Paris and beyond.

But across country, and we notice that the autoroute goes the wrong way, as they invariably do.

A hundred metres ahead lay the twentieth century, the autoroute junction raised on stilts, sloping down into its cloverleaf pattern that allowed the eye, intent upon its tight curve, no leisure for the driver to stare at the countryside.

He turned off the Normandy autoroute before Paris and booked in to a motel in the Valley de Chevreuse: Versailles PJ confirm that.

He nodded as the autoroute appeared beneath them and the sun began to lower away to their right.

Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.

Saul grew tired quickly, fighting off sleep as Kochubey went on and Erika raced along the Autoroute du Sud toward Lyon.

But once in the car, driving down the Autoroute to Paris, he complained.

Felixes and were coming down toward the north coast, the vegetation returned, with small, pleasant towns succeeding each other by the side of the autoroute as the ATV rolled on.

After disposing of the evidence, the shooter quickly rejoined his two comrades in the Citroen, and the car again sped off to the south, past the Montparnasse Cemetery where Pierre Sirois would be buried, and headed onto the autoroute for Troyes.

It was only a few minutes along the Autoroute before the Antibes exit.