Usually means: Controlled-access highway for fast travel.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. expressway: Merriam-Webster
  2. expressway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expressway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expressway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expressway: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expressway, expressway: Wordnik
  7. expressway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expressway: Wiktionary
  9. expressway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expressway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expressway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expressway: Dictionary.com
  13. expressway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expressway (India), Expressway (disambiguation), Expressway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. expressway: Rhymezone
  16. expressway: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expressway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expressway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. expressway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. expressway: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expressway: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Expressway: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (US, regional) A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
▸ noun:  (Canada, parts of the US, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines) Synonym of freeway
▸ noun:  (UK, New Zealand) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.

Similar:
superhighway, throughway, motorway, thruway, freeway, pike, State highway, Beltway, interstate, spur, more...

Opposite:
backroad, side street, dirt road

Types:
freeway, highway, turnpike, toll road, more...

Phrases:
mixed expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway, Ganga Expressway, Cross Bronx Expressway, Purvanchal Expressway, more...

Adjectives:
new, lane, elevated, urban, major, busy, south, modern, mile, west, main

Colors:
    gray,     asphalt black,     signal red, more...



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Similar:
superhighway, throughway, motorway, thruway, freeway, pike, State highway, Beltway, interstate, spur, more...

Opposite:
backroad, side street, dirt road

Types:
freeway, highway, turnpike, toll road, more...

Phrases:
mixed expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway, Ganga Expressway, Cross Bronx Expressway, Purvanchal Expressway, Yamuna Expressway, North Luzon Expressway, South Luzon Expressway, Dwarka Expressway, more...

Adjectives:
new, lane, elevated, urban, major, busy, south, modern, mile, west, main

Colors:
    gray,     asphalt black,     signal red, more...



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