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Superhighway vs Highway - What's the difference?

superhighway | highway |

As nouns the difference between superhighway and highway

is that superhighway is an expressway, especially one designed for high speeds while highway is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

superhighway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "superhighway")

    Derived terms

    * information superhighway

    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

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