highway

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noun

Etymology: 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”).

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. Any public road.
3. A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.

   “You're on a highway to greatness.”

   “I'm on the highway to hell”

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

verb

Etymology: 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”).

1. To travel on a highway