noun [usuallysing.]
1 (old-fashioned, BrE) a main or important road
compareHIGHWAY
2 ~ (to sth) the most direct way:
This is the high road to democracy.
IDIOMS
take the high road (in sth) (AmE) to take the most positive course of action:
He took the high road in his campaign.
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