four-lane
5
2.8
- adjective
- /fɔr leɪn/
:
de cuatro carriles
- We were speeding along a four-lane highway.
- a four-lane highway
- a four-lane road
Examples
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It's about 50 miles south on Highway 45's four lanes into Starkville from Tupelo, so it's not a bad drive.
Blog text (9) -
The street ended abruptly at a grassy strip the width of a four-lane highway.
Fiction book (1998) -
Right now we live in the middle of the town on a four-lane road.
Blog text (34) -
Modern interstates are always at least four lanes of traffic with limited access.
Academic text (2012) -
A wide, busy four-lane boulevard.
Fiction book (2002) -
We live on a four-lane road in the middle of 100,000 people.
Blog text (34) -
Interstate highways and four-lane roads push from the south, southwest, and west.
Academic text (1993) -
Construction will start on the four-lane parkway within 45 days, he said in a phone interview.
Blog text (1) -
A similar situation exists in the town of Capcuaro, located about 15 kilometers north of Uruapan along MX-37, a four-lane north-south highway.
Academic text (2004) -
The new four-lane expressway will significantly reduce travel time between cities.
Synonyms
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4.0
A road with more than one lane for traffic moving in the same or opposite directions
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Morphology
Etymology
Four-lane comes from the two simple words four and lane, where lane means 'a part of a road' and four is the number 'four'. So a four-lane road has two lanes for traffic in each direction, making four lanes in total.