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Definition of "motorway" []

  • Chiefly British A superhighway. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "motorway" in a sentence
  • "If you do end up hiring a car, staying in motorway hotels is often cheaper than historic (and hysterically expensive) city locations"
  • "For my initial research for these improbable adventures, I drove on Saturday afternoon down the old Great North Road that still runs parallel to the A1 (M) from Alconbury to Stilton, where huge tin motorway signs tower over the hedges."
  • "Heavy traffic on the motorway from the Croatian coast to Zagreb."