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[ free-wey ] / ˈfriˌweɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR freeway ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf. a toll-free highway. Origin of freewayAn Americanism dating back to 1925–30; free + way1 Words nearby freewayfree verse, free vibration, Freeview, free vote, freeware, freeway, free weight, freewheel, freewheeler, freewheeling, freewill Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for freewayHe took a secluded road, telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the tolls. ‘Brave Miss World’: Linor Abargil on Her Journey From Rape Victim to Beauty Queen to Activist|Linor Abargil|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The word evaporados appears on a wall adjacent to a freeway in a collection of photographs by Eduardo Villanes. In ‘Urbes Mutantes,’ Scenes From Latin America’s Transformations|Justin Jones|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast. Amy Heckerling’s Three Favorite Scenes in ‘Clueless’ on Its 18th Birthday|Erin Cunningham|July 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST In 1998, a man named Daniel Jones shot himself in the head on live television on a Los Angeles freeway interchange. ‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase|Eric Nusbaum|September 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix. ‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase|Eric Nusbaum|September 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST She walked back across the freeway to the shantytown and ran into Hilda coming the other way. To go down Stemmons Expressway or Freeway towards the trade mart, you would have to turn how? Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Because there are times when you pick up your speed, for instance on a freeway. Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy We got the freeway in our sights and steadied and slowed and kept slowing. The Night of the Long Knives|Fritz Reuter Leiber My revolver and her dart gun were both tucked in the cave back at the edge of the freeway. The Night of the Long Knives|Fritz Reuter Leiber
British Dictionary definitions for freeway
noun USanother name for expressway a major road that can be used without paying a toll Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to freewaythoroughfare, highway, superhighway, artery, road, interstate, thruway, parkway, beltway |