Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An expressway in Italy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an expressway in an Italian-speaking country.
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- noun A
motorway inItaly (and some other countries)
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- noun an expressway in an Italian-speaking country
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other metaphoric reflexes can be seen in Italian autostrada, ` a skinny girl '(lit. ` highway') (because she has no curves), Italian ossigeno, ` money '(lit.
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As anyone who has spent time on an autostrada can attest, ordinary Italians, when given the chance, will drive like Michael Schumacher on the run from the law, perhaps unconsciously compensating for the frustrating slowness of other parts of their society, including the career ladder and the state bureaucracy.
A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead Francis X. Rocca 2011
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The Spider weighs 110 pounds more than the coupe—about 3,400 pounds—but when you're plunging down the autostrada with the Dyson vacuum of the gods pulling at your coiffure, the Spider doesn't feel a bit slower than the coupe.
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Like the rest of the Polish Commonwealth's autostrada network, the A5 had been built since the Second Soviet War, part of the government's ambitious plan to tie the newly-acquired ex-Soviet republics of Ukraine and Belarus to the rest of the country.
DBTL 62: Road Trip Johnny Pez 2010
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The buildings they passed became shabbier, the countryside was unkempt, and the back roads they traveled between completed sections of the autostrada became, if possible, even worse.
DBTL 62: Road Trip Johnny Pez 2010
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With the autostrada, this is now a mere two-hour commute.
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"Statement" wineries rose from the scrubland, including the Lafite-Rothschild joint venture, Rocca di Frassinello, whose monumental Renzo Pianodesigned winery broods like a futuristic prison bunker -- in "Renzo red" -- above the autostrada.
The Other Tuscany Richard Nalley 2010
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They booked a pair of rooms at a modest hotel near the autostrada, then went out to find something to eat.
DBTL 62: Road Trip Johnny Pez 2010
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Well, after climbing up and over three legendary HC climbs in our car, we finally found the autostrada.
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Simchovitch was the driver, though, so the autostrada it was.
DBTL 62: Road Trip Johnny Pez 2010
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