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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motorway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a motorway caféBritish English (= a café beside a motorway)
▪ They stopped at a motorway café.
a motorway exitBritish English, a highway/freeway exit AmE:
▪ He signalled a right as he came to his freeway exit.
motorway trafficBritish English, freeway traffic AmE:
▪ As motorway traffic worsens, commuters may have to find other ways of getting to and from work.
three-lane motorway/highway/road
turn off the road/motorway etc
▪ Mark turned off the highway and into Provincetown.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway.
▪ However, this development would require public support in the form of a new East Coast motorway.
▪ Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway.
▪ For instance, Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she doesn't know.
▪ Mining, new towns and motorways have gradually eaten away at woodland in the region.
▪ This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.
▪ The accident has led to new calls for motorway driving to be included in the driving test.
▪ But what if we want to investigate the impact that a new motorway has had on the surrounding area?
■ NOUN
bridge
▪ He'd end up in a motorway bridge.
▪ Time allowed 00:16 Read in studio Businesses say the closure of a motorway bridge is ruining their trade.
▪ The cause of the crash was a Land Rover sliding off an M62 motorway bridge on to the train track.
▪ An inquest heard how the coach swerved to avoid a car and crashed into a motorway bridge support.
▪ The driver lost his legs when the vehicle hit a motorway bridge.
▪ It ploughed off the motorway, behind the motorway bridge crash barrier, and into the concrete upright.
network
▪ The region's motorway network puts the heavily populated industrial heartland of Britain within a day's drive of Liverpool.
service
▪ Two hours later and ravenous, we settled for egg and chips at a motorway service station.
▪ Read in studio Police have opened a motorway service station to encourage drivers to take a break.
▪ So it will be some time before he can turn his full attention to his hobby-horse Britain's motorway service station crisis.
▪ In the motorway service areas, Trusthouse Forte alone have invested over £80 million since they were allowed to purchase their leases.
▪ She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch.
▪ However, most people would welcome a greater availability of motorway service stations.
▪ They stop at a motorway services.
■ VERB
build
▪ The ramifications of the decision whether to build a motorway or not are enormous.
drive
▪ How do we prevent learning becoming the educational equivalent of driving up a motorway? how do we get it all in?
▪ She was driving along a motorway.
▪ How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway?
leave
▪ A few miles further on they left the motorway, although they were still following a main road.
use
▪ Weapon convoys regularly use the M8 motorway through central Glasgow.
▪ But nobody who regularly uses the motorway can say they haven't been warned about the dangers of driver fatigue.
▪ Those who use the motorway regularly like lorry drivers tend to stop off during foggy periods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A new motorway service station has been opened to encourage drivers to take a break.
▪ The speed limit on motorways is 70 mph.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A chain hotel located in a city centre or at the exit roundabout of a motorway guarantees many identical rooms.
▪ A wall of windows overlooked the motorway.
▪ Fifty vehicles were involved, ten people were killed, many more hurt on the motorway just outside Swindon.
▪ Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay.
▪ However, he defended the widening of the M25 motorway around London, and the building of bypasses in rural areas.
▪ In front of her the motorway shimmered in the sun like the sands of a desert.
▪ Male speaker He's still probably sweating a little because he's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction.
▪ Read in studio Police have opened a motorway service station to encourage drivers to take a break.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motorway

1903, from motor- + way (n.).

Wiktionary
motorway

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 called freeway.

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WordNet
motorway

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

Wikipedia
Motorway (typeface)

Motorway is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom. It was first used on the M6 Preston bypass in 1958 and has been in use on the UK's motorways ever since. It is also used in some other countries, most notably Ireland and Portugal.

Motorway (film)

Motorway is a 2012 Hong Kong action film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong and Guo Xiaodong.

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.