trunk road

1. 1.

   a highway

   Synonymshighroad

   Broaderhighway

   United Kingdom

Questions about trunk road

What does trunk road mean?

trunk road means "a highway".

What is another word for trunk road?

Close synonyms include highroad. 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 trunk road a common word?

trunk road 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.