motorway

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/ˈməʊtəweɪ/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

busy | four-lane, three-lane, etc.

orbital, urban

Heavy traffic on the urban motorway delayed commuters during rush hour yesterday.

VERB + MOTORWAY

join | leave, turn off | build

MOTORWAY + NOUN

driving, traffic | network, system | bridge, junction | service area/station

crash, pile-up

Heavy traffic built up after a serious motorway crash blocked two lanes this morning.

PREP

along the ~

Traffic moved slowly along the motorway during the morning rush hour.

down the ~

We drove down the motorway for three hours to reach the coast.

off the ~, onto the ~, on the ~, up the ~

~ from, ~ to

Traffic was heavy on the motorway from Manchester during the evening rush hour.

Definitions

noun

A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separat

All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.

Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.

A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.

The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

expressway
freeway
pike
superhighway
throughway
thruway

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.

Wiktionary

Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20

Wiktionary

It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.

Wiktionary

The police pursued the stolen vehicle along the motorway.

Tatoeba · #238322

The motorway is snarled up.

Tatoeba · #241278

Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.

Tatoeba · #327152

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, motorway is marked as UK, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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