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Highway vs Pathway - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between highway and pathway

is that highway is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers while pathway is a footpath or other path or track.

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

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    pathway

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A footpath or other path or track.
  • (biochemistry) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.