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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expressway
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They took the expressway to the airport.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A motor-cycle cop with his siren on went roaring along the elevated expressway that was level with the surgery window.
▪ At Jihlava, we picked up the D-1 expressway, which took us effortlessly into Prague.
▪ Denver officials honored their former mayor by naming a 12-mile expressway to the new airport Pena Boulevard.
▪ He seemed to be underneath the expressway.
▪ It has since set back the timetable for the expressway, proposed for just south of Miramar Road.
▪ Motorists see them on turnpikes and expressways.
▪ The expressway flies over quiet suburban streets with old-fashioned lamps coming on among the elms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expressway

by 1945, American English, from express (adj.) + way (n.). Express highway is recorded by 1938.

Wiktionary
expressway

n. 1 (context parts of the US English) A divided highway where intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated. 2 (context Canada parts of the US Malaysia Singapore English) A road built to freeway standards. 3 (context New Zealand English) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.

WordNet
expressway

n. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway]

Wikipedia
Expressway

Expressway may refer to:

  • Controlled-access highway, the highest-grade type of highway with access ramps, lane dividers, etc., for high-speed traffic
  • Limited-access road, a lower grade of highway or arterial road
  • Expressway, the fictional slidewalk transport system in Isaac Asimov's Robot series

Usage examples of "expressway".

Rhone Valley when Bolan pulled the BMW sedan off the expressway and drove through a deserted rest area to the gas station.

Occasionally headlamp beams from traffic on the expressway swept through the foliage, but the sound of the engines was lost in the wind.

They covered the sixty-odd miles of expressway between Marseilles and the Avignon turnoff in twenty-nine minutes, hitting an average of just over 120 mph.

Instead of loading their haul into cars and attempting a getaway on one of the expressway lanes, instead of leaving the tunnel and making it across the countryside to another road, he had come up with a smarter idea.

The path, made some years ago when the expressway was engineered, was too stony and overgrown for the cars that would carry away the hijackers and their spoils: these were parked on a loop of country road far below.

Vesuvius, left the expressway at Castellammare, and piloted the car around the mountainous hairpins of the Sorrento peninsula.

A brown Chevette cut in front of me on the expressway and I slammed my horn.

We drove up Broad Street to the Roosevelt Extension of Route 1 and then hit the Schuylkill Expressway, west, to get us to the cemetery.

We were on the Schuylkill Expressway again, going east, toward the city.

Lenny had pulled off the expressway at the Girard Street exit and left me just outside the front entrance to the Philadelphia Zoo.

I would have thought your little misadventure on the expressway would have wised you up enough to keep you out of the business, but no.

Lenny, your performance in the car after that thing on the expressway was exemplary.

A continuous trickle of humanity filtered off the expressway, across the decelerating strips to localways or into the stationaries that led under arches or over bridges into the endless mazes of the City Sections.

He lifted himself onto the expressway platform, made his way through the standees to the tight spiral ramp that led to the upper level, and there sat down.

A passenger hurrying from the expressway must inadvertently have kicked it in the direction of deceleration and now the owner was whirling away from her property.