OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2504

motorway

/ˈməʊtəweɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
autopista • autovía
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a sectio…
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