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superhighway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
superhighway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
information superhighway
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
information
▪ Not only is Anaheim getting its $ 200 million information superhighway free, it intends to make money out of it.
▪ The militia is really a direct-mail marketing operation for conspiracy theory videos and a busy interchange on the information superhighway.
▪ Great swathes of the world don't even have electricity or roads, let alone an information superhighway.
▪ That includes writing reports, sending electronic mail and cruising the information superhighway.
▪ A mission project of the Methodist Church is building a technology center so local businesses can travel the information superhighway.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the information superhighway
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mission project of the Methodist Church is building a technology center so local businesses can travel the information superhighway.
▪ Great swathes of the world don't even have electricity or roads, let alone an information superhighway.
▪ Not only is Anaheim getting its $ 200 million information superhighway free, it intends to make money out of it.
▪ Opinion polls and focus groups are Stone Age implements in the brave new world of interactivity just down the communications superhighway.
▪ The merged company would attract the billions of dollars necessary to construct the electronic superhighway.
▪ The militia is really a direct-mail marketing operation for conspiracy theory videos and a busy interchange on the information superhighway.
▪ Who will build this expensive new superhighway?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
superhighway

1921, from super- + highway.

Wiktionary
superhighway

n. (context US English) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.

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WordNet
superhighway

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

  2. an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form [syn: information superhighway]

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Usage examples of "superhighway".

We can car-pool and avoid all the traffic snarls on the Infommercial Superhighway where apologists for fat headed films clog the pathways of perception.

He has been consigned to the Dumpster of history while people like me ride our limos down the superhighway of tomorrow.

Interactive multimedia, cable-phone alliances, the Information Superhighway, fiber- to-the-curb, laptops and palmtops, the explosive growth of cellular and the Internet -- the earth trembles visibly.

I could not have penicillin or modern anesthesia without aviation, electronics, mass communication, superhighways, and industrial agriculture--not to mention the atomic bomb and biological warfare.

Los Angeles at 0600, grabbed a rented car, and stormed along the superhighways toward Pasadena, where General Funkhauser and his aides would be waiting.

He inched his spectacular mount -- it was a violently iridescent chrome green in color, with highly polished chromium gingerbread wherever there was any excuse for gingerbread to be - across the city and into the north-bound side of the superhighway.

When Eddie looked east he saw blocked and broken landscape,mthe harsh aura of downtown lights, the pale linear scar of the nascent superhighway and its three interchanges, built especially for Charlie Weeb's development.

Time and again he found narrow isthmuses of city, lines of buildings half a mile across following old superhighways.

Then Curtis ran a traceroute on the site, which showed him which road on the information superhighway he was using to connect with the site.

Fifty miles south of Zahedan, they crossed a major superhighway, the Mashhad-Chah Bahar Highway.