motorway
motorway — noun
1. a wide road built for cars, buses, and trucks to travel at high speed over long
a wide road built for cars, buses, and trucks to travel at high speed over long distances, especially in Britain and Ireland. Motorways have several lanes going each way so that traffic can keep moving, and drivers can only get on or off the road at special places called junctions.
Priya drove for three hours on the M6 motorway from Birmingham to Manchester.
concrete UK motorway reference with route and city names
The accident closed the motorway for four hours between junctions 14 and 15.
collocation: close the motorway; junction numbering
Motorway service stations along the M1 provide fuel, hot food, and toilets for drivers.
During the morning rush hour, traffic on the M25 motorway crawled at just thirty kilometres per hour.
A new motorway linking Cardiff to Swansea is expected to open next spring.
- highway
more general term; in US English, the common word for any main road, including motorway-style roads
- freeway
US term for a wide, fast road with no traffic lights or intersections
- expressway
US term for a high-speed road, sometimes with fewer access restrictions than a motorway
- B-road
a narrow secondary road in Britain that connects smaller towns and villages, with much lower speed limits
用法筆記
This word is mainly used in British English. In the United States, roads of this type are called highways, freeways, or interstates. Motorway junctions are numbered, and service stations are placed at regular intervals along the route.