motorway
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
Other meanings
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
Synonyms
- freeway
- pike
A kind of
- main road
Kinds of motorway
- toll road
Related words
- managed motorway
- orbital motorway
- smart motorway
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “motorway” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.