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Highway vs Highwayless - What's the difference?

highway | highwayless |

As a noun highway

is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

As an adjective highwayless is

without a highway.

highway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 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.}}
  • (rail)  Any public road for vehicular traffic.

    • Hyponyms

    * (main public road) expressway, motorway

    See also

    *

    highwayless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a highway.
  • * 1935 , Railway age: Volume 98
    • Except for Lombard, Mont., on the CM St. P. & P. and the Northern Pacific, Pettigrew is probably unique in being a highwayless town, and it may be possible that a highway has been built into Lombard since this writer last was there...