WordNet
n. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, superhighway, throughway, thruway]
Wikipedia
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually either a road numbered by the state or province, falling below numbered national highways in the hierarchy (route numbers are used to aid navigation, and may or may not indicate ownership or maintenance); or a road maintained by the state or province, including both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on the state, state highway may be used for one meaning and state road or state route for the other.
In some countries such as New Zealand, the word "state" is used in its sense of a nation. By this meaning a state highway is a road maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities.
State Highway (Lower Dandenong/Cheltenham) is an 18 km stretch of continuous road in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. VicRoads classifies it as an arterial road, and identifies it as road number 6050. It is allocated the road route State Route 10 for its entire length.
The Strade Statali, abbreviated SS, is the Italian national network of state highways. The total length for the network is about .
The Italian state highway network are maintained by ANAS. From 1928 until 1946 state highways were maintained by AASS.
Usage examples of "state highway".
Then they left the state highway for a secondary road with much less traffic and a lot more snow, necessitating a slower speed.
The weather didn't worsen beyond that, and they continued to make good time even after they turned off onto a state highway.
The only person known to have a friendly relationship with Skink was Trooper Jim Tile of the state highway patrol.
Our program, basically, was to drive the real estate goons completely out of the valley: to prevent the State Highway Department from bringing a four-lane highway into the town and in fact to ban all auto traffic from every downtown street.
As far as Chyna could recall, the next intersection would be State Highway 2 9, which she and Laura had driven the previous afternoon.
By the time he reached the end of the field and climbed over a snowbank onto the two-lane state highway that led to Arrowhead in one direction and Big Bear in the other, his pants and coat were crusted with frozen snow, his feet were freezing, and he had lost more than five minutes.