motorway
/ˈməʊtəweɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.46 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
New Zealand usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails."
- "Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed."
- "It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway."
- "In 1959, Ernest Marples became the new Minister of Transport. His business career had been as a road builder and he saw the future in a network of motorways, whereas he believed there was serious overcapacity in the railway network."
- "One national agency is responsible for developing and maintaining the national motorway system, which typically is a small fraction of the entire roadway network. (page 8)"
- "An alternative transit route that bypasses the metropolis’ traffic-filled streets, the 400-kilometer (248.5-mile) North Marmara Motorway starts on the western side of Istanbul and ends in the eastern Marmara province of Sakarya."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈməʊtəweɪ/
Usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- American usage