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

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

He told investigators he fell asleep at the wheel and had no memory of striking the bicyclists and an escort vehicle in the right southbound lane of the four-lane divided highway.

From Seattle Times

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

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