highway

plural highways · alternative abbreviation hwy. · alternative abbreviation hwy · alternative abbreviation hi'way · alternative abbreviation hi-way · alternative abbreviation hiway · alternative abbreviation hi way

1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

   The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

2. lawAny public road.
3. figurativelyA way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.

   You're on a highway to greatness.

   2 more examples

   I'm on the highway to hell

   1979, “Highway to Hell”, in Highway to Hell, performed by AC/DC

   So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

   2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK

4. archaicA road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.
5. computingSynonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

   Synonyms: bus

present singular third person highways · participle present highwaying · participle past highwayed · past highwayed · alternative abbreviation hwy. · alternative abbreviation hwy · alternative abbreviation hi'way · alternative abbreviation hi-way · alternative abbreviation hiway · alternative abbreviation hi way

1. To travel on a highway

1. A number of places in England:
   1. A western suburb of Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8680).
   2. A neighbourhood of Redruth, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7143).
   3. A neighbourhood in Stoke sub Hamdon parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4717).
   4. A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0474).
2. A number of places in the Philippines:
   1. A sitio in the barangay of Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
   2. A sitio in the barangay of San Carlos, Rosario, Batangas, Philippines.
   3. A sitio in the barangay of San Jose, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
   4. A sitio in the barangay of Anoling, General Nakar, Quezon, Philippines.
   5. A sitio in the barangay of Ikirin, Pagbilao, Quezon, Philippines.
   6. A sitio in the barangay of Pinagbayanan, Pagbilao, Quezon, Philippines.
   7. A barangay of Dulag, Leyte, Philippines.

      Synonyms: Poblacion