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
On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers clung to a treetop for 33 hours, during which time the woman gave birth to a child.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other road was a highroad of moral idealism, which cut directly across the conservative pattern of American society to revolution, secession and civil war.
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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