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Meanings of trunk road in English

Russian
провинциальная дорога
Spanish
carretera troncal
Catalan
carretera principal
Wikidata

Type of major road, usually connecting major settlements.

        Related terms
        провинциальная дорога
        Portuguese
        estrada
        Catalan
        camí ral
        Spanish
        camino real

        A highway.

              estrada
              Synonyms
              Examples for "highroad"
              Examples for "highroad"
              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
              Usage of trunk road in English
              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
              6
              All along the trunk road, that trails by many thousand towns and listens to a hundred languages, whatever good there was was Cunningham's.
              Rung Ho! A Novel
              7
              As they reached the trunk road they were saluted by a reverberating blast when the magazine that they had fought to hold blew skyward.
              Told in the East
              8
              The Bonao road, being the most direct route to La Vega, has been designated by the military government for improvement as a trunk road.
              Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
              9
              Driving to Agra, we came across another herd of deer, and got the best buck almost within a hundred yards of the trunk road.
              From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
              10
              The country's under water, except the patch by the Grand Trunk Road.
              The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
              11
              In 1984 he moved down the Grand Trunk Road to Peshawar.
              Ghost wars
              12
              Trunk roads -used by the overwhelming majority of travellers -are shockingly bad.
              The Guardian
              13
              The coaches would never leave the trunk roads and motorways.
              The Guardian
              14
              And truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle.
              Kim
              15
              The islands' key Andaman Trunk Road was shut after dozens of trees were uprooted.
              Reuters
              16
              Once built, many trunk roads nowadays are provided with meteorological instruments to monitor potential hazards.
              The Irish Times