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freeway

[ free-wey ]

noun

  1. an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
  2. a toll-free highway.


freeway

/ ˈfriːˌweɪ /

noun

  1. another name for expressway
  2. a major road that can be used without paying a toll


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Word History and Origins

Origin of freeway1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30; free + way 1

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Example Sentences

He took a secluded road, telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the tolls.

The word evaporados appears on a wall adjacent to a freeway in a collection of photographs by Eduardo Villanes.

He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

In 1998, a man named Daniel Jones shot himself in the head on live television on a Los Angeles freeway interchange.

He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix.

I folded there, and the next thing I knew, I was on my side in the rubble under the freeway, holding myself and crying.

Traffic roared up the first short block of Wisconsin from under the high steel freeway down to their left.

The last flicker of light scudded across the steel sides of the freeway to pick out the lettering above the shop window.

Here is the railroad overpass, and here is the freeway overpass.

That's right; in other words, Stemmons Freeway and the service road both go under the underpass.

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