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highway

nomverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈhɑjwɛj//
  • //ˈhaɪweɪ//

A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

nom

  1. 1

    A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

    The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

  2. 2

    Any public road.

  3. 3

    figuréA way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.

    You're on a highway to greatness.

    I'm on the highway to hell

    So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

  4. 4

    archaïqueA road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.

  5. 5

    Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

Étymologie

From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

verbe

  1. 1

    To travel on a highway

Formes

pluriel
highways
passé
highwayed
participe passé
highwayed
participe présent
highwaying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
highways
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

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