Usually means: Highway encircling a major city.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word beltway:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. beltway, the Beltway, the beltway: Merriam-Webster
  2. Beltway, beltway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Beltway, beltway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beltway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beltway: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beltway, beltway: Wordnik
  7. beltway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beltway, beltway: Wiktionary
  9. beltway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beltway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beltway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beltway, the beltway: Dictionary.com
  13. beltway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Beltway, The Beltway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. beltway: FreeDictionary.org
  16. beltway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Beltway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. beltway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beltway: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beltway: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beltway, the beltway: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A 64-mile Interstate freeway surrounding Washington, D.C..
▸ noun:  (mostly local usage) The expressway that surrounds another city.
▸ noun:  (US politics) The US federal government and policy and lobbying organizations, located in Washington, D.C..
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C.; politicized.
▸ noun:  (US) A freeway that encircles a city.

Similar:
Bellevue, Washington, Federal City, Foggy Bottom, Potomac, Bloomingdale, Ivy City, K Street, Fort Davis, Willard, more...

Opposite:
outskirts, rural area, countryside

Phrases:
beltway bandits, beltway sniper, Beltway bandit, the beltway, Inside the Beltway, more...

Adjectives:
the, inside, outer, inner, new, outside, urban, insidethe, interstate, second, suburban



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Similar:
Bellevue, Washington, Federal City, Foggy Bottom, Potomac, Bloomingdale, Ivy City, K Street, Fort Davis, Willard, more...

Opposite:
outskirts, rural area, countryside

Phrases:
beltway bandits, beltway sniper, Beltway bandit, the beltway, Inside the Beltway, Capital Beltway, Las Vegas Beltway, Texas State Highway Beltway 8, Winston-Salem Northern Beltway, beltway environs, more...

Adjectives:
the, inside, outer, inner, new, outside, urban, insidethe, interstate, second, suburban



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