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

There was only a few hundred feet of divided highway left, and then Route 91 turned into a surface street, right at the intersection with Vermont Avenue.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2023

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.