trunk route

1. 1.

   line that is the main route on a railway

   Synonymstrunk line

   Broaderline

Questions about trunk route

What does trunk route mean?

trunk route means "line that is the main route on a railway".

What is another word for trunk route?

Close synonyms include trunk line. 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 route a common word?

trunk route 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.