superhighway

[soo-per-hahy-wey, soo-per-hahy-wey]

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

/ ˈsuːpəˌhaɪweɪ /

noun

1. a fast dual-carriageway road

Word History and Origins

Origin of superhighway¹

First recorded in 1925–30; super- + highway

Example Sentences

One provider even called them a “superhighway out of homelessness.”

From Los Angeles Times

Bird flu first arrived in North America in 2014, following a typhoon in Asia that impacted the North American Pacific Flyway, one of the major avian superhighways.

From Salon

For nearly 15 years, the four daughters of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards have been passengers to their mother’s journey on the reality TV superhighway.

From Los Angeles Times

This was the so-called “information superhighway,” which Levin called the Full Service Network.

From Seattle Times

Using genetic analyses and oceanographic modelling, researchers at Oxford University demonstrated for the first time that a network of ocean currents scatter significant numbers of larvae between these distant islands, acting as a 'coral superhighway.'

From Science Daily

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