Definition of "arterial road" [arterial road]

• A major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (noun)

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• "a little later Bix came to the northern arterial road from Venev."
• "Tombstones and more tombstones — not the imposing mausolea and sepulchra of the rich and noble which flanked every arterial road out of the city, but the gravestones of simpler souls."