dual carriageway

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”

   Synonymsdivided highway

   Broaderhighway

Questions about dual carriageway

What does dual carriageway mean?

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

What is another word for dual carriageway?

Close synonyms include divided highway. 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 dual carriageway a common word?

dual carriageway 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.