- (old-fashioned except in road names) a main or important road
- Kilburn High Road
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- high road (to something) the most direct way
- This is the high road to democracy.
Idioms
See high road in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytake the high road (in something)
- (North American English) to take the most positive course of action
- He took the high road in his campaign.
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