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A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beltway, orbital motorway
Antonyms: none provided
a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ringway
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: highway, main road
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
околовръстен път
(okolovrǎsten pǎt)
— highway
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Catalan:
ronda
— highway
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Chinese Mandarin:
環路 /环路
(huánlù)
— highway
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Chinese Mandarin:
繞城公路 /绕城公路
(ràochéng gōnglù)
— highway
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Czech:
okruh
— highway
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Dutch:
ring
— highway
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Dutch:
ringweg
— highway
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Finnish:
kehätie
— highway
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French:
périphérique
— highway
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French:
ring
— highway
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French:
rocade
— highway
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French:
route de ceinture
— highway
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French:
voie de ceinture
— highway
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French:
boulevard de ceinture
— highway
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German:
Ringstraße
— highway
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German:
Umgehungsstraße
— highway
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Greek:
περιφερειακός δρόμος
(perifereiakós drómos)
— highway
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Hungarian:
körgyűrű
— highway
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Indonesian:
jalan lingkar
— highway
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Irish:
cuarbhóthar
— highway
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Irish:
bóthar cuarach
— highway
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Italian:
circonvallazione
— highway
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Japanese:
環状道路
(kanjō dōro)
— highway
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Korean:
순환선
(sunhwanseon)
— highway
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Lithuanian:
lankstas
— highway
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Macedonian:
обиколница
(obikolnica)
— highway
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Malay:
jalan lingkaran
— highway
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Norwegian Bokmål:
ringvei
— highway
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
ringvei
— highway
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Polish:
obwodnica
— highway
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Portuguese:
anel rodoviário
— highway
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Portuguese:
contorno
— highway
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Portuguese:
circular
— highway
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Portuguese:
circunvalação
— highway
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Romanian:
centură
— highway
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Russian:
кольцева́я доро́га
(kolʹcevája doróga)
— highway
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Russian:
окружна́я доро́га
(okružnája doróga)
— highway
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Russian:
кольцева́я
(kolʹcevája)
— highway
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Russian:
окружна́я
(okružnája)
— highway
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Spanish:
circunvalación
— highway
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Swedish:
ringväg
— highway
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Swedish:
ringled
— highway
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Ukrainian:
кільцева́ доро́га
(kilʹcevá doróha)
— highway
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Ukrainian:
кільцева́
(kilʹcevá)
— highway
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Welsh:
cylchffordd
— highway
