Synonyms for highway
ˈhaɪˌweɪhigh·way

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1. highway

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

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1. highway, main roadnoun

   a major road for any form of motor transport

   Synonyms:
   main road

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1. highwaynoun

   Synonyms:
   high-road, public road

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1. List of paraphrases for "highway":

   motorway, road, freeway, expressway, highways, autoroute, roads, hwy, superhighway, route, motorways, on-road, rapid, interstate, cty, roadway, routier

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1. Joe Manchin:

   You’re going to get your financial house in order. We cannot live with this crippling debt, if we don’t look at the trust funds that are going bankrupt, whether they be Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, highway, all the ones — there are tremendous problems right now.

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   The governor expects these perpetrators to be prosecuted and held accountable for their crimes, he has also taken immediate action to increase CHP presence on highways near popular shopping areas statewide. This year, Gov. Newsom signed legislation to extend the California Highway Patrol Organized Retail Crime Task Force, and he is committed to taking additional action in his January budget.

3. John Boehner:

   By ignoring the will of the American people, President Obama has cemented President Obama legacy of lawlessness and squandered what little credibility President Obama had left, president Obama' my way or the highway' approach makes it harder to build the trust with the American people that is necessary to get things done on behalf of the country. Republicans are left with the serious responsibility of upholding our oath of office.

4. Scott Sherin:

   It’s logical that United States has n’t yet developed a nationwide high-speed network, for decades, traveling by car was n’t a hardship, but as highway congestion gets worse, we’ve reached a stage where we should start looking more seriously at the alternatives.

5. Pete Buttigieg:

   This my way or the highway idea, that either you're for kicking everybody off their private plans in four years or you're for business as usual, it's just not true.