autostrada
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of autostrada
1925–30; < Italian, equivalent to auto auto + strada road, highway ≪ Latin ( via ) strāta; see street
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Italian state radio said there were several injured in the accident on the A14 autostrada near Forli’, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
The drink, for those who’ve never been in a road emergency on the Italian autostrada, might work as fuel for your Fiat in a pinch.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2017
Why it’s not famous today can be explained only by its obscure location, almost exactly halfway between Venice and Trieste several miles south of the autostrada.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
Here’s how it’s done: After the three-hour drive from Venice Marco Polo Airport toward Austria, pull off the autostrada into the inviting city of Bolzano.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
In a protest for higher wages, refinery workers sporadically cut delivery of the premium gasoline that most Italian cars require, thereby limiting autostrada excursions.
From Time Magazine Archive
European drivers prefer tighter, more responsive steering, especially given Europe's narrow roads and its speed-limitless autobahns and autostradas.
From Time ● Jul. 30, 2010
With fatter paychecks in their pockets, 4,000,000 Italians now take to the new, no-speed-limit autostradas for "il weekend."
From Time Magazine Archive
In universities across the Continent, and on many U.S. campuses too, college kids are about to dust off knapsacks and take to the open Autobahnen, routes nationales, carreteras and autostrade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from our great cities have their prototype and exemplar in the autostrade which star the cities of Hanover and Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Hitler has pretended that he wanted only Danzig, plebiscite for the Corridor, an autostrade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Driving can occasionally resemble either a safari or a Grand Prix race, depending on whether you are in the countryside of Portugal or on the Autobahnen or autostrade of Germany or Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its construction companies are building 1,600 miles of Italy's handsome autostrade, using cement from IRI plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
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