Highway vs Beltway - What's the difference?
highway | beltway |
A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
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A 64-mile Interstate freeway surrounding .
(mostly local usage) The expressway that surrounds another city.
(US, politics) The US federal government and policy and lobbying organizations, located in .
Of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C.; politicized.
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As nouns the difference between highway and beltway
is that highway is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers while beltway is a freeway that encircles a city.As a proper noun Beltway is
a 64-mile Interstate freeway surrounding Washington, D.C..As an adjective Beltway is
of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C.; politicized.highway
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Hyponyms
* (main public road) expressway, motorwaySee also
*beltway
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* Beltway bandits * inside-the-Beltway * inside the Beltway * outside the BeltwayAdjective
(en adjective)- Your New Yorker article posed the question, "Can the president's education crusade survive Beltway politics?"''