highways
SayHY-wayz/ˈhaɪweɪz/
- 1Plural of highway.
Several highways were closed for repairs during the holiday weekend.
The state spent millions widening its busiest highways.
Note
A regular plural: the -s simply joins the stem, just as ways does. It serves every noun sense of highway, from main public roads to the archaic raised road with ditches along its sides, figurative paths toward a destiny, and the electronics term for a bus that links circuits. The same spelling also serves the verb, as its third-person singular: someone who travels on a highway highways.
highways is a form of highway
highway, noun: A main public road, especially a wide, high-speed thoroughfare with several lanes. Full entry
- Forms
- highwayhighways plural
- Spelling
- highway → highways: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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