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
Too late, he tried to clamber back on the highroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Oklahoma!, it spurns ready-made formulas, but where Oklahoma! took the smooth, pleasant lowroad Of picturesque folklore, Venus takes the highroad of sophisticated fantasy, which is an unpaved, bumpy, not-often-in-the-dough road.
From Time Magazine Archive
He pointed east, where the road led into the highroad and to the town gate.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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