Meanings
plural arterial roads
- A major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).
The road, narrow and in poor repair, was almost deserted, all the heavy traffic passing by the wider arterial road which ran importantly inland from town to town, despising the windings of the coast with its few scattered hamlets.
1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His CarcaseSynonyms: arterial, arterial route, arterial street
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).
Translations
German Hauptverkehrsstraße, Ausfallstraße
- HauptverkehrsstraßeA major thoroughfare
- AusfallstraßeA major thoroughfare
Indonesian jalan arteri, jalan besar
- jalan arteriA major thoroughfare
- jalan besarA major thoroughfare
Polish arteria
- arteriaA major thoroughfare
Portuguese via arterial
- via arterialA major thoroughfare
Spanish calle arterial
- calle arterialA major thoroughfare
Swedish trafikpulsåder
- trafikpulsåderA major thoroughfare
Welsh priffordd, ffordd brifwythiennol
- prifforddA major thoroughfare
- ffordd brifwythiennolA major thoroughfare
Cite this entry
arterial road. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arterial%20road
“arterial road.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arterial%20road. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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