This expressway connects Tokyo with Nagoya.
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Expressway
//eksˈpɹɛs.weɪ//
Synonyms for "expressway" (88 found)
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Closest matches (18)
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Related words (44)
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3 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
9 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
4 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriesused for
8 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 26 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 高速公路 noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Danish
1 entries- motortrafikvej noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Dutch
1 entries- expressweg noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Finnish
1 entries- moottoriliikennetie noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
French
2 entries- autoroute noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
- voie express noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
German
3 entries- Austria/Switzerland: Autostraße noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
- Autostrasse noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
- Kraftfahrstraße noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Greek
1 entries- αυτοκινητόδρομος noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Interlingua
1 entries- autostrata noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Italian
1 entries- superstrada noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Japanese
2 entries- 自動車道 noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
- 高速道路 noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Korean
2 entries- 고속도로 noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
- 고속화도로 noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Lithuanian
2 entries- greitkelis noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
- greitkelis noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Macedonian
1 entries- автопат noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Malay
1 entries- lebuh raya noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- motortrafikkvei noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- motortrafikkveg noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Polish
2 entries- autostrada noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
- droga ekspresowa noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Portuguese
1 entries- auto-estrada noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Russian
1 entries- автомагистра́ль noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- autocesta noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Shona
1 entries- marodi noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Spanish
1 entries- autopista noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Swedish
1 entries- motortrafikled noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
Turkish
3 entries- ekspres yol noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
- motorlu taşıt yolu noun (high speed road, not built to motorway standards)
- otoyol noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đường cao tốc noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Volapük
1 entries- motoraveg noun (US: divided highway — see also motorway)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I had hoped to get another 50,000 miles out of my car, but it gave up the ghost on the expressway and it would cost too much to fix it.
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The expressway was congested with thousands of cars.
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You can't be too careful driving on the expressway.
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