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superhighway
[ soo-per-hahy-wey, soo-per-hahy-wey ]
noun
- 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. Compare expressway.
- any very fast route or course.
superhighway
/ ˈ²õ³Ü˱èəˌ³ó²¹Éª·É±ðɪ /
noun
- a fast dual-carriageway road
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of superhighway1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
This was the so-called “information superhighway,†which Levin called the Full Service Network.
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.'
Several activist groups have labeled this jet superhighway a “sacrifice zone†— a place where others profit off residents’ health and safety degradations.
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