Streets

Streets

avenue: a wide street in a city

• The avenues in the city are wide and elegant.

beltway: a freeway that forms a circle around a city, connecting its outer suburbs

• Traffic is fast on the beltway, and you have to be careful.

freeway: a highway with several lanes and few or no stoplights; vehicles enter and exit via ramps

• There are always a lot of trucks on the freeway.

highway: a main public road that connects towns and cities

• The highway is usually crowded.

road: an open way for the passage of vehicles, people, or animals

• The road that leads to our cabin is not paved.

street: a public way for automobiles, usually with buildings on both sides

• What street do you live on?

toll road: a freeway that charges money to use it

• We took the toll road and got there much faster, but it cost ten dollars in tolls.