superhighway

[ soo-per-hahy-wey, soo-per-hahy-wey ]

noun

1. a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
2. any very fast route or course.

superhighway

/ ˈsuːpəˌhaɪweɪ /

noun

1. a fast dual-carriageway road

Word History and Origins

Origin of superhighway¹

First recorded in 1925–30; super- + highway

Example Sentences

By shedding their onboard sensors, the drones using the superhighway would free up space and weight capacity to increase their payloads and, hopefully, their efficiency.

From Singularity Hub 

Altitude Angel even lists passenger UAVs—also known as flying taxis—as another type of vehicle that could eventually make use of the drone superhighway.

From Singularity Hub 

Such superhighways are essential for a properly functioning brain.

From Science News For Students

It makes up the majority of our bodies, and since so many vital nutrients dissolve in water, it forms the superhighways of the body.

From Popular-Science

The creation of the multi-lane information superhighway has created a traffic problem.

From The Daily Beast

But the Travelaire was never designed for driving on anything but a modern superhighway.

From Project Gutenberg

As they slid along the superhighway toward the first and largest of the Venusian cities, Astro pointed out the sights.

From Project Gutenberg

A few moments later Strong was speeding along the superhighway back toward the city.

From Project Gutenberg

And I call on the Congress to pass legislation to establish that information superhighway this year.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing, of course, to an experienced climber—a foot-wide ledge might as well be a four-lane superhighway.

From Project Gutenberg

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