highway

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.

   You're on a highway to greatness.

3. 3
   noun

   a major road for any form of motor transport

4. 4
   noun

   Any public road.

5. 5
   noun

   A 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.

6. 6
   noun

   Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).

7. 7
   verb

   To travel on a highway

8. 8
   name

   A number of places in England:

Etymology

From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).