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FREEWAY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does freeway mean?

• FREEWAY (noun)
The noun FREEWAY has 1 sense:

1. a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

Familiarity information: FREEWAY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FREEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

expressway; freeway; motorway; pike; state highway; superhighway; throughway; thruway

Hypernyms ("freeway" is a kind of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

Meronyms (parts of "freeway"):

carriageway (one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freeway"):

autobahn (an expressway in a German-speaking country)

autostrada (an expressway in an Italian-speaking country)

turnpike (an expressway on which tolls are collected)

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