expressway

[ ik-spres-wey ]

noun

1. a highway especially planned for high-speed traffic, usually having few if any intersections, limited points of access or exit, and a divider between lanes for traffic moving in opposite directions.

expressway

/ ɪkˈsprɛsˌweɪ /

noun

1. a motorway

Word History and Origins

Origin of expressway¹

First recorded in 1940–45; express + way ¹

Example Sentences

Our nose and mouth are connected by our airways, meaning bits of everything we chew and swallow take an expressway directly to that very sensitive bouquet of smell receptors as we swallow.

From Popular-Science

Floodwater surrounds vehicles following heavy rain on an expressway in Brooklyn.

From The Daily Beast

It was a profound and persuasive rebuttal of the anti-urban “urban renewal” paradigm — which Robert Moses was executing with expressways and other car-centric new infrastructure.

From Freakonomics

She fought for parks and other pedestrian space over expressways.

From Freakonomics

This can be done through new technologies such as what are seen deployed in Singapore like green link determinings systems, parking guidance systems, and expressway monitoring systems allowing for enhanced traffic awareness and guidance.

From TechCrunch

It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

From The Daily Beast

It takes just as long to fly to Miami, he ponders, as it does to navigate the horrendous traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

From The Daily Beast

The part between the end of the 401 and the EC Row expressway is already in the process of being re-graded and expanded.

From The Daily Beast

I imagined us in a motel room bed off the Long Island Expressway so vividly that it almost seemed to have happened.

From The Daily Beast

Of course, when we turned off of Stemmons Expressway, we knew then that we were headed toward Parkland.

From Project Gutenberg

After we got out to Stemmons—they'd set up a roadblock just as you entered Stemmons Expressway.

From Project Gutenberg

This is from that part of Elm Street that goes into the expressway?

From Project Gutenberg

That would be the railroad overpass over Stemmons Expressway service road.

From Project Gutenberg

It's over Stemmons Expressway; in other words, they make that turn off Elm and go up.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• freeway
• interstate
• superhighway
• turnpike