Synonyms:
highway, main_road
Meaning: a major road for any form of motor transport
Usage examples
All day and all night they rode, and it was the peep of day when they came to the king's highway.
This is almost north of the Damascus gate and on the great highway from Jerusalem from the north.
Judar was delighted with it while he was passing along the highway and withal it had cost him nothing.
For the way on the right hand betokeneth the highway of our Lord Jesu Christ, and the way of a good true good liver.
After the orchard came the long leafy lane, with its double rows of cherry-trees, and then the gate at the end, leading into the public highway.
Now that he was merely Toad, and no longer the Terror of the Highway, he giggled feebly and looked from one to the other appealingly, seeming quite to understand the situation.
Now the knights were well pleased with the words of the king, and at the first peep of day they were ready for their journey, and rode down the king's highway with waving plumes and shining shields.
After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down the "Tory" Road . . . a green, solitary highway where the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel.
He walked his horse onward, not daring to trot, struck the dusty highway, rode on over an imperceptible roll of the plains, and was alone on a vast bare earth, naked as when born from the womb of time.
We, unlike a contemporary, have no morbid sympathy with crime--embroidered or otherwise; our wishes, as loyal subjects, are confined to a short shrift and a high gallows for all who dare to obstruct the Queen's highway.'