divided highway

American  

noun

1. a superhighway with a broad median strip, designed to prevent collisions, headlight glare, etc., between vehicles moving in opposite directions, and usually having limited or cloverleaf access.

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divided highway British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): dual carriageway.  a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a central strip of turf, etc

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Example Sentences

At least once a week, we drive on a multilane, divided highway partially under reconstruction with a speed limit that varies between 55 and 75 mph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Radio waves, divided highway engineering, transistors and technology repurposed from targeted bombs were all pitched at points after World War II as ways of delivering an automobile utopia.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Under the agreement, prosecutors dropped a felony charge of attempting to elude law enforcement as well as a misdemeanor charge of driving the wrong way on a divided highway.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2021

Super Cruise, which debuted in 2017 in the Cadillac CT6 sedan, is capable of completely hands-free driving across more than 200,000 miles of divided highway across North America.

From The Verge • Jul. 23, 2021

I was driving on a divided highway somewhere in So.�

From The Biography of a Rabbit by Benson, Roy, Jr.