Highroadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhaɪ ɹəʊd/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhaɪ ˌɹoʊd/

名詞

high road (plural high roads)

1. (chiefly British) A main road or highway.

   Near-synonyms: highway (variably 'main' or not), high street (precisely coordinate)

   • Nov. 1, 1878, Rev. Miles Greenwood, “North China”, in The Mission Field‎, number 275, page 544:

     On Wednesday, the 27th, we arrived at a place called Tʻien-chin. Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in The Black Arrow:

     There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     The highroad on the other side was frequented by few, for a nearer-hand way to the west had been made through the lower Moss.

   • 2020, Godine, “[Descriptive overview of Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell]”, in [catalog], Godine:

     [This book is a] funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss.

2. (idiomatic) A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable.

   Antonym: low road

   take the high road

   • 1982 November 22, Thomas Griffith, “A Tilt Called Cynicism”, in Time:

     The high road of public service and the low road of political advantage seem inextricably intertwined.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high,‎ road.

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参照

• “high road”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.