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Highway vs Nonhighway - What's the difference?

highway | nonhighway |

As a noun highway

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

As an adjective nonhighway is

not of or pertaining to highways.

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

    *

    nonhighway

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not of or pertaining to highways.
  • * 2007 , Federal Highway Administration (U.S.), Highway Statistics, 2005
    • The motor fuel revenue data reported by the States may include small amounts of revenues generated from the nonhighway use of motor fuel.