highroad

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a main public road or highway; now more often written high road

   Tolls collected on the highroad were meant to pay for its repair.

A compound of high + road. In this older use high meant principal or public, so a highroad was the chief route between places rather than necessarily a road at high elevation.

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