[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/highway/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) / highway # highway noun (a highway, highways) «highway» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and cities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#m1) 2. (old or formal) Any public road; «the Highway Code» is the UK book of road rules. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#m2) ### In the lessons In the USA and Canada «highway» is the everyday word for a big main road, like a «freeway» or «interstate»; in the UK people more often say «motorway» or «main road». Road safety: never walk or play on a highway. Phrases: «on the highway», «highway patrol», «the Highway Code». ### Examples - We drove along the highway to the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x1) - The highway was busy with trucks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x2) - Never cross a highway on foot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x3) - The highway runs right across the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x4) - Learn the rules in the Highway Code before you ride your bike on the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x5) - Highway patrol officers stopped the speeding car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x6) - There was a traffic jam on the highway. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x7) - A Rat was traveling along the King's highway. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/#x8) ### Note Countable: a highway, highways. American and Canadian «highway» ≈ British «motorway» or «A-road». A «highwayman» in old stories was a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road. ## In Jewish tradition The king's road, a main public road that travelers could use. In the Prophets it is also simply a public road, the place where a man was killed or a field lay. In the psalm "the highways in the heart" is read as a longing for the roads that lead to Jerusalem. **Interpretation.** Tradition reads the psalm as a person whose heart is set on the pilgrim roads up to the Temple. ### Examples - 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. (Torah DEU.2.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/#x1) - 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.' (Torah NUM.21.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/#x2) - And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. (Prophets 2SA.20.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/#x3) - Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways. (Writings PSA.84.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/#x4) - And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field. (Prophets ISA.36.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/#x5) ### Note Countable: a highway, highways. American and Canadian «highway» ≈ British «motorway» or «A-road». A «highwayman» in old stories was a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «highway» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/highway/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«highway» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/highway.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «highway» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/highway/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«highway» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/highway.html) on Mova free.