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Meanings of highroad in English

Portuguese
estrada
Catalan
camí ral
Spanish
camino real

A highway.

estrada
Synonyms
Examples for "trunk road"
Examples for "trunk road"
1
Theirs is probably on a trunk road to the suburbs.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
2
Have they nothing better to engage them than holding up officers on the Queen's trunk road?
Told in the East
3
A massive landslide blocked part of a major trunk road in Papua New Guinea's Chimbu Province on Monday night.
Radio NZ
4
So inspissated has the road system become that more trunk road building is not even a palliative of urban congestion.
The Irish Times
5
It is located on a trunk road going up to Cameron Highlands, a popular vacation destination, in the state of Pahang.
Reuters
Usage of highroad in English
1
We must be nearing the Front; we were rejoining the main highroad.
The Firefly of France
2
Beyond the big gate, the highroad was washed with the recent rains.
The Trumpeter Swan
3
The highroad into the village of Weydon-Priors was again carpeted with dust.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
4
Springing up, he dashed the tears away and hurried towards the highroad.
Martin Rattler
5
No footstep disturbed the silence of the highroad; where was my patient?
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
6
He was looking through a field glass down the highroad before him.
War and Peace
7
A blacksmith named Birger Larsson had a smithy close by the highroad.
Jerusalem
8
It is on the highroad, I should say, nearly abreast of us.
In Times of Peril: A Tale of India
9
Then she turned round, and began to walk back towards the highroad.
A Spirit in Prison
10
At length he came into the highroad, where there was a gate.
McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
11
Not one of them had ever found a logical highroad of escape.
The Education of Henry Adams
12
A highroad was made connecting the King's city with the Hermit's wood.
John of the Woods
13
There are a lot of singers like you begging along the highroad!
The Bishop and Other Stories
14
The new fortress faced the highroad some five miles from the Karnian border.
Long Live the King!
15
So our peasant went on in the highroad with his sheep.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
16
Russia was on the highroad to emancipation from an insane and intolerable slavery.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
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Translations for highroad
Catalan
camí ral
Highroad through the time
Highroad across language varieties
United Kingdom
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