Motorway

//ˈməʊtəweɪ//

Synonyms for "motorway" (46 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

Noun(4 words)

expressway freeway (motor) speedway autoroute

parkway alley arterial artery avenue blind alley

Strong matches (13)

boulevard bypass byway causeway close controlled access highway court crescent dike drive driveway expressway freeway

Related words (23)

highroad lane main drag mews place right-of-way road roadbed roadway row speedway street terrace thoroughfare turnpike

Noun(8 words)

highway motospeedway pike speedway state highway superhighway throughway thruway

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

2 entries

highway main road

Synonyms

3 entries

controlled access highway expressway freeway

at location

10 entries

city daytona driveway england europe indiana new jersey race track racing arena technologically advanced society

derived

3 entries

managed motorway orbital motorway smart motorway

has context

4 entries

british ireland new zealand parts of australia

is a

4 entries

avenue along highway road for vehicles wide long fast road

related to

12 entries

autoroute broad expressway freeway high highway permitted restriction speed traffic type vehicle

used for

6 entries

drive drive faster drive upon driving transport travel

Translations

110 translations across 71 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

snelweg noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Albanian

1 entries

autostradë noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Arabic

2 entries

أُوتُوسْتْرَاد noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
طَرِيق سَرِيع noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Armenian

1 entries

ավտոմայրուղի noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

avtomagistral noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
avtomaqistral noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
avtostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Basque

1 entries

autobide noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Belarusian

1 entries

аўтамагістра́ль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Bengali

1 entries

ফ্রিওয়ে noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Bulgarian

1 entries

а́втомагистра́ла noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Catalan

2 entries

autopista noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autovia noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

快速公路 noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
高速公路 noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Czech

1 entries

dálnice noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Danish

1 entries

motorvej noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Dutch

2 entries

autosnelweg noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
snelweg noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Esperanto

1 entries

aŭtovojo noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Estonian

1 entries

maantee noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Extremaduran

1 entries

autopista noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Finnish

1 entries

moottoritie noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

French

1 entries

autoroute noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Galician

1 entries

autoestrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Georgian

2 entries

ავტომაგისტრალი noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
ავტოსტრადა noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

German

3 entries

Autobahn noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
Kraftfahrstraße noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autobahn noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Greek

2 entries

αυτοκινητόδρομος υπερταχείας κυκλοφορίας noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
δρόμος χωρίς διόδια noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Hindi

1 entries

द्रुतमार्ग noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Hungarian

2 entries

autópálya noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autósztráda noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Icelandic

1 entries

hraðbraut noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Indonesian

1 entries

jalan bebas hambatan terkendali noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Irish

1 entries

mótarbhealach noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Italian

1 entries

autostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Japanese

2 entries

自動車道 noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
高速道路 noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Kazakh

2 entries

автомагистраль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автострада noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Korean

1 entries

고속도로 noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

автомагистраль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автострада noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Lao

1 entries

ທາງດ່ວນ noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Latin

1 entries

autovia noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Latvian

2 entries

automaģistrāle noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autostrāde noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Lithuanian

2 entries

automagistralė noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Autobunn noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Macedonian

1 entries

автопат noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Malay

1 entries

lebuh raya noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Neapolitan

1 entries

autostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Norman

2 entries

autoroute noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
motoroute noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Norwegian

1 entries

motorvei noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

motorvei noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

motorveg noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Occitan

1 entries

autorota noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Persian

2 entries

آزادراه noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
اتوبان noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Piedmontese

1 entries

autostrà noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Polish

1 entries

autostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Portuguese

1 entries

autoestrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Romanian

1 entries

autostradă noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Russian

4 entries

автоба́н noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автомагистра́ль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автостра́да noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
магистра́ль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Scots

1 entries

motorwey noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

autocèsta noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
àutopūt noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
а̀утопӯт noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
аутоцѐста noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Silesian

1 entries

autobana noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Slovak

1 entries

diaľnica noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Slovene

1 entries

avtocesta noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Spanish

2 entries

autopista noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
autovía noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Swedish

1 entries

motorväg noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Tajik

2 entries

автомагистрал noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автострада noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Thai

2 entries

ทางด่วน noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
มอเตอร์เวย์ noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Turkish

2 entries

otoban noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
otoyol noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Turkmen

2 entries

awtomagistral noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
awtostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Ukrainian

4 entries

автоба́н noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автомагістра́ль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
автостра́да noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
магістра́ль noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Uzbek

2 entries

avtomagistral noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
avtostrada noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Veps

1 entries

avtomagistralʹ noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Vietnamese

3 entries

đường cao tốc noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
đường trục ô tô noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
đường ô tô chính noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Walloon

3 entries

otorote noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
otostråde noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)
otovoye noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Welsh

1 entries

traffordd noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

West-Frisian

1 entries

autodyk noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Yiddish

1 entries

אויטאָסטראַט noun (highway designed for high-speed motor-traffic)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

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The police pursued the stolen vehicle along the motorway.

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The motorway is snarled up.

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Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.

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We left the motorway at junction 11.

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