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# highway

«highway» in Mova's school dictionary: **A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a highway, highways)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and cities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#m1)

2) (old or formal) Any public road; «the Highway Code» is the UK book of road rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the USA and Canada «highway» is the everyday word for a big main road, like a «freeway» or «interstate»; in the UK people more often say «motorway» or «main road». Road safety: never walk or play on a highway. Phrases: «on the highway», «highway patrol», «the Highway Code».

### examples

- We drove along the highway to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x1)
- The highway was busy with trucks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x2)
- Never cross a highway on foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x3)
- The highway runs right across the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x4)
- Learn the rules in the Highway Code before you ride your bike on the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x5)
- Highway patrol officers stopped the speeding car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x6)
- There was a traffic jam on the highway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x7)
- A Rat was traveling along the King's highway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x8)

### note

Countable: a highway, highways. American and Canadian «highway» ≈ British «motorway» or «A-road». A «highwayman» in old stories was a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road.

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/27/)
- [Example: after a hurricane, a photo shows a shark swimming on a flooded highway in Houston.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/283-safe-online-and-checking-what-you-see/10/)
- [«My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone who won't bend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not/41/)
- [In the UK the Highway Code advises cyclists to wear a helmet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/42-swimming-and-cycling/16/)
- [The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «highway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.