motorway

CEFRA2

/ˈməʊtəweɪ/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A wide road for fast traffic traveling between places.
02
noun
Extra detail
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meaning

A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

In context

All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.

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All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
1895 October, “Real Estate”, in California Banker's Magazine, page 429
In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
2018, Paul R. Wonning, A Year of Indiana History Stories, volume 1, Greensburg, Indiana: Mossy Feet Books, page 250
The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.
2020 July 13, Jeff Olson, “Race To Develop Automotive, Safety Technology Never Stops at IMS”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Indianapolis Motor Speedway, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2021
Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.
1913 September 20, Good Roads, page 137
It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.
1925 December, C. L. Norton, “Our Industrial Highways”, in Trade Winds, volume 4, number 10

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From motor + way.