highroad
Americannoun
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Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
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an easy or certain course.
the highroad to success.
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an honorable or ethical course.
noun
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a main road; highway
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(the highroad) the sure way
the highroad to fame
Etymology
Origin of highroad
Example Sentences
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It expresses the widely shared feeling that high culture had it coming for having offered itself as a substitute religion, a "royal highroad of transcendence," in novelist Walker Percy's phrase.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
"It's not only HTC highroad but 12 riders from various teams," he parps.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011
The selections, picked well off the main highroad of English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of them urged that he restrict himself to a highroad preconvention campaign in which he would avoid any divisive attacks on Mondale.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, just off the highroad, stood a great barn.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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