A British term for a ring road — the circular or semi-circular highway that loops around the outside of a town or city to divert through-traffic away from the centre.
A British term for a ring road — the circular or semi-circular highway that loops around the outside of a town or city to divert through-traffic away from the centre. Ringway is an older or more formal variant of 'ring road', associated in particular with mid-20th-century British urban planning. The word also famously attaches to Manchester's airport (formerly Ringway Airport), giving it a certain nostalgic resonance for anyone who travelled through Manchester in the last century.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, UK) A circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation.
An American informal term for a beltway — a loop road or ring road that encircles or partially encircles a city, allowing drivers to bypass the urban core. 'Belt highway' is a straightforward descriptive alternative to 'beltway,' more common in some regional dialects than others. These roads are known for their rush-hour gridlock, confusing interchanges, and the sense that you are perpetually driving in a loop without actually arriving anywhere.
(US) A freeway that encircles a city.
An American term for a ring road or circumferential freeway that loops around a city, allowing through traffic to bypass the urban core. The most famous is the Capital Beltway (I-495) encircling Washington D.C., which gave rise to the political idiom 'inside the Beltway' — meaning the insular, self-referential world of D.C. politics and government. As political slang, 'Beltway' is shorthand for the disconnected elite of Washington: 'Beltway thinking,' 'Beltway media,' 'Beltway insiders.'
It's quicker to jump on the ringway and come in from the north side than to get stuck in the town-centre traffic.
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(UK) A ring road.
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