freeway

[ free-wey ]

/ ˈfriˌweɪ /

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noun

an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.

a toll-free highway.

Nearby words

freetail, freethinker, freetown, freeview, freeware, freeway, freewheel, freewheeler, freewheeling, freewill, freewill offering

Origin of freeway

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30; free + way¹

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Examples from the Web for freeway

He took a secluded road, telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the tolls.
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The word evaporados appears on a wall adjacent to a freeway in a collection of photographs by Eduardo Villanes.
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He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.
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In 1998, a man named Daniel Jones shot himself in the head on live television on a Los Angeles freeway interchange.
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He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix.
‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase|Eric Nusbaum|September 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
She walked back across the freeway to the shantytown and ran into Hilda coming the other way.
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To go down Stemmons Expressway or Freeway towards the trade mart, you would have to turn how?
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Because there are times when you pick up your speed, for instance on a freeway.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
We got the freeway in our sights and steadied and slowed and kept slowing.
The Night of the Long Knives|Fritz Reuter Leiber
My revolver and her dart gun were both tucked in the cave back at the edge of the freeway.
The Night of the Long Knives|Fritz Reuter Leiber

British Dictionary definitions for freeway

freeway

/ (ˈfriːˌweɪ) /

noun US

another name for expressway

a major road that can be used without paying a toll

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