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arterial road en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A major thoroughfare, particularly one used to provide a large capacity for travelling some distance. (In American English, such roads are often classified as highways (either secondary highways or limited-access highways).
   • The road, narrow and in poor repair, was almost deserted, all the heavy traffic passing by the wider arterial road which ran importantly inland from town to town, despising the windings of the coast with its few scattered hamlets. 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase:

Forms

Coordinates

urban boulevard (often overlapping in meaning) · stroad (often overlapping in meaning)

Synonyms

arterial · arterial route · arterial street

Translations (10)

es calle arterial (A major thoroughfare) · cy ffordd brifwythiennol (A major thoroughfare) · sv trafikpulsåder (A major thoroughfare) · de Hauptverkehrsstraße (A major thoroughfare) · de Ausfallstraße (A major thoroughfare) · pl arteria (A major thoroughfare) · pt via arterial (A major thoroughfare) · cy priffordd (A major thoroughfare) · id jalan besar (A major thoroughfare) · id jalan arteri (A major thoroughfare)