divided highway

1. 1.

   a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions

   “in Britain they call a divided highway a dual carriageway”

   Synonymsdual carriageway

   Broaderhighway

Questions about divided highway

What does divided highway mean?

divided highway means "a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions".

What is another word for divided highway?

Close synonyms include dual carriageway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is divided highway a common word?

divided highway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.