beltway

Questions about beltway

What is another word for beltway?

It depends which beltway you mean. In the sense “a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center”, the synonyms are bypass, ring road, ringway. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of beltway?

WordNet records no antonym for beltway. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for beltway come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of beltway

• Full entry for beltwayAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for beltwayWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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