Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An expressway, freeway, motorway or highway.
- n. An expressway in any francophone country.
Etymologies
Examples
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The long, smooth roadway that connected the estate to the autoroute was the perfect place to get better acquainted with the A8's 372-horsepower, 4. 2-liter V-8 and its 328 pound-feet of torque.
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"Not having been to school," he has said, "I'm not on the 'autoroute', I'm following my own path, just doing whatever I have to do to be considered normal."
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As they turned off the autoroute on to the airport spur, Martinez looked at his watch and cursed.
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It seems that SNCF ticket machines, autoroute toll collection machines, etc. need a "puce" - what's a Yank to do?
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On the way home from the gare, I decided to positiver: to not focus on my aunt and uncle's absence, rather to turn the lonely ride into a Sunday drive (opting for the scenic and free route nationale instead of the autoroute).
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Note what happens when I increase the scale: those roads, including the railroad, suddenly shift up and cross over the autoroute.
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But just under two years later, Helene's husband Jean-Francois had a near-fatal accident on the autoroute.
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Midway between Paris and Frankfurt and the principal east-west autoroute in northern France, it is also on the junction of a major motorway from the Low Countries to southern Europe, and an obvious staging post for Scandinavian and German tourists heading off to their summer holidays in the south.
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On the way, I turned off the autoroute too early and drove what I thought was in the right direction.
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Located two hours to the southeast of Paris, the wine area starts in Chablis in the north of the region and then it follows the autoroute A6 southerly to Lyon.
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