carriageway
(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.
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Maybe the full application will include some way of crossing the dual carriageway and continuing across the roundabout and actually link to the rest of the cycle network.
Man killed and teen girls severely injured as car ploughs into house – ‘Horrendous’ https://www.europesays.com/britain/29203/ Emergency services raced to the property in Haslingden, Lancashire, where a car had left…
... which seems to be getting worked on at the moment. All southbound motorists currently use the (recently disused) bus lane on the right side of the carriageway.
M8 westbound carriageway to close overnight for bridge repairs
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(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.
“... which seems to be getting worked on at the moment. All southbound motorists currently use the (recently disused) bus lane on the right side of the carriageway.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) The part of a road that carries traffic.
Carriageway means: The part of a road that carries traffic.. It is mainly Irish English and may not be understood outside that context. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
carriageway means: The part of a road that carries traffic.. Register: informal, Irish English. Often not understood outside its region; gloss the word on first use when writing for an international audience. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
“Maybe the full application will include some way of crossing the dual carriageway and continuing across the roundabout and actually link to the rest of the cycle network.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Man killed and teen girls severely injured as car ploughs into house – ‘Horrendous’ https://www.europesays.com/britain/29203/ Emergency services raced to the property in Haslingden, Lancashire, where a car had left the carriageway and collided…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“M8 westbound carriageway to close overnight for bridge repairs”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(UK, Philippines) A road in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median.
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(US) One side of a divided highway that carries traffic in a single direction.
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(US) A dual carriageway.
- divided highway69%
The standard American English term for what British drivers call a dual carriageway — a road with two or more lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a central median or divider. It's functional, descriptive vocabulary rather than slang, but it represents one of those clean transatlantic vocabulary differences that trips people up. In the US the sign says 'divided highway ends' and everyone knows what to expect; in the UK the same concept travels under an entirely different name.