divided highway
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- noun
- /dɪˈvaɪdɪd ˈhaɪweɪ/
- US
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autopista dividida
- While driving on the divided highway, I felt safer knowing that oncoming traffic was separated by a barrier.
- a four-lane divided highway
Examples
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A lot of people in the provincial government are just as bad ("a 4-lane divided highway from Ottawa all the way to Kenora, that's what this province really needs") and I can't even start with the feds.
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There are very few divided highways in Romania, so most of our driving is on small two-lane roads that go through farmland and small villages.
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If, for any reason, you find yourself driving in the median of a divided highway, STAY THERE.
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This is why I'm more comfortable with this kind of thing on divided highways, at least for now.
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On both sides of the straight, divided highway, pools of water were standing in the plowed fields.
Fiction book (1998) -
Terminator looks back at his two passengers as he turns the boxy van onto a divided highway.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Divided highways," she says.
Fiction book (1996) -
We'd drive a while and then suddenly there'd be a mile of divided highway, then back to blacktop.
Fiction book (1995) -
They need to make sure they're raising their hands and saying, 'We don't want more six-lane divided highways.'
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Twenty years of oil revenue had brought long divided highways plunging through the once-open spaces, with rotaries, overpasses, and cloverleaf intersections.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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A main road that connects big towns or cities for long trips
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A road with two separate sides for traffic going in opposite directions, often divided by a central barrier
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Morphology
The meaning of 'divided highway' is directly derivable from combining 'divided' (separated, having a central division) with 'highway' (major road), so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a road with a barrier separating opposing traffic. This adjective + noun composition is a common, transparent pattern across languages and should be readily understood by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Divided highway comes from the simple picture of a highway that is split by a central strip or barrier, so the road is literally divided into two sides. That's why it means 'a main road where traffic going each way is kept apart', often making driving safer and faster.