autostrade

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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autostrade (plural autostrades)

  1. A highway in southern Europe.
    • 1948, Pierre Laval, The Unpublished Diary of Pierre Laval, page 37:
      He also had business in several foreign countries and I recall that he mentioned to me at one time a plan for an autostrade across the Polish corridor.
    • 1949, Clara Longworth Comtesse de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen: The Story of My Life, page 80:
      An autostrade at last where we could make up a bit for lost time!
    • 2015, Suze Clemitson, Ride the Revolution: The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling, →ISBN:
      Granted, there's no seatbelt, so it could have been a James Dean tragic scenario in the event of an autostrade collision.

Etymology 2

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From Italian autostrade.

Noun

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autostrade

  1. plural of autostrada

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French autostrade, from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌoː.toːˈstraː.də/, /ˌɑu̯.toːˈstraː.də/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: au‧to‧stra‧de

Noun

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autostrade f (plural autostrades or autostraden, diminutive autostradeke n or autostradetje n)

  1. (Belgium) highway, motorway
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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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autostrade f (plural autostrades)

  1. (obsolete) motorway
    Synonym: autoroute
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 108; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
      [...] si je contemplais aujourd’hui le même site, je constaterais peut-être que l’hybride troupeau a disparu : piétiné par une race plus vigoureuse et plus homogène de gratte-ciel implantés sur ces rives qu’une autostrade a fossilisées d’asphalte.
      — [...] if I could see the same scene today, I would perhaps discover that the hybrid herd has vanished, trampled down by a more vigorous and homogeneous race of skyscrapers established on these banks, which may have themselves been fossilized in asphalt to carry a motor-road.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aw.toˈstra.de/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧de

Noun

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autostrade f

  1. plural of autostrada