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Etymology

From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

inherited from hēahweġ — “main road, highway”
inherited from heiȝwai

Definitions

A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
Any public road.
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A way
A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
- You're on a highway to greatness.
- I'm on the highway to hell
- 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”?.
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1. A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher…
  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.
2. Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
3. To travel on a highway
4. A number of places in England
  A number of places in England:
5. A number of places in the Philippines
  A number of places in the Philippines:

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Derived

antihighway, belt highway, controlled-access highway, digital highway, divided highway, hedgehog highway, Hershey highway, Highway Code, highway engineer, highway hypnosis, highwayless, highwaylike, highwayman, highway patrol, highway robber, highway robbery, highway-robbery, highwaywoman, highway yellow, hijack, hwy., information highway, Karakoram Highway, King's highway, limited-access highway, lost highway, Marilaque Highway, my way or the highway, one's way or the highway, Nether highway, nonhighway, plain as Dunstable highway, semi-highway, St Kew Highway, superhighway, superinformation highway, tourist highway

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at highway. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at highway. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at highway

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