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別の表記

• hwy., hwy (abbreviation)
• hi'way, hi-way, hiway, hi way (abbreviation)

語源

From 中期英語 heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from 古期英語 hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high +‎ way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.

Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈhaɪweɪ/

• 韻: -aɪweɪ

名詞

highway (plural highways)

1. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.

   Hypernyms: road, route

   Hyponyms: expressway, motorway, superhighway

   Coordinate terms: back road, back street

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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. (law, rail transport) Any public road.

   Hypernyms: road, route

3. (figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.

   You're on a highway to greatness.

   • 1979, “Highway to Hell”, in Highway to Hell, performed by AC/DC:

     I'm on the highway to hell

   • 2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK:

     So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

4. (archaic) 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.

   Coordinate term: byway

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

派生語

動詞

highway (third-person singular simple present highways, present participle highwaying, simple past and past participle highwayed)

1. To travel on a highway

参照

• “highway”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “highway”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.