Lexic.us

Definition of Highroad

1. Noun. A highway.

Definition of Highroad

1. n. A highway; a much traveled or main road.

Definition of Highroad

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of high road) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Highroad

1. a highway [n -S] - See also: highway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highroad

Literary usage of Highroad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"4Vz-6 Jt\ where they rejoin the highroad. Quitting the latter 2l/4 M. farther on. they descend to the right by the old road via ..."

2. The American Empire by Scott Nearing (1921)
"THE IMPERIAL highroad 1. A Youthful Traveler ALONG the highroad that leads to empire moves the American people, in the heyday of its youth, sturdy, ..."

3. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa by Heinrich Barth (1890)
"... OF INSECURITY ALONG THE MOST FREQUENTED highroad. GANDO. Sunday, May 8.—At length I was able to pursue my journey, which now, as soon as I had passed ..."

4. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"They took it, but lost heavily, and I rode among their dead in the white, dusty highroad in the afternoon, and see it all now through the mists of ..."

5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"Standing back from the highroad, Notre Dame de Brou is well placed in a grassy court, with no other building near save the convent on the right, ..."

6. Fighting in Flanders by Edward Alexander Powell (1914)
"As they tramped down the tree-bordered, cobble- paved highroad, we heard, for the first time in Belgium, the lilting refrain of that music- hall ballad ..."

7. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"... BÜLACH. ery on the left), descend the highroad, and diverge to the right by the Heiden road into the ..."

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