thruwaynoun [ C ]
also throughway /ˈθruː.weɪ/us/ˈθruː.weɪ/a wide road for fast-moving traffic, with a limited number of places where drivers can enter and leave it:
the New York State Thruway
Synonym
expressway
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Roads: rural & suburban
- back road
- beltway
- bypass
- byway
- dirt road
- feeder
- highway
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- ring road
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through traffic
- throughway
- trunk road
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