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superhighway

American  
[soo-per-hahy-wey, soo-per-hahy-wey] / ˈsu pərˌhaɪ weɪ, ˌsu pərˈhaɪˌweɪ /

noun

  1. a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway.

  2. any very fast route or course.

superhighway British  
/ ˈsuːpəˌhaɪweɪ /

noun

  1. a fast dual-carriageway road

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of superhighway

First recorded in 1925–30; super- + highway

Example Sentences

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I still recall the promise of new-millennium digital iconography, when knowledge fused with access, and posters with images of kids surfing on textbooks down the information superhighway adorned school computer rooms.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

Running southwest is the Via Baltica superhighway to Poland, clogged with trucks from all over the EU and Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

With cash use falling, they might be expected to disappear - a roadside relic as we all pull onto the technology superhighway.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Google instead wants to blitz you with buggy new gizmos whose basic functionalities lack everything that made Google an empire, a verb, a dependable custodian of the information superhighway.

From Slate • May 16, 2024

Apparently, Mom has forgotten that school is like an information superhighway.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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