DCHP-2

autoroute Autoroute DCHP-2 (September 2016)

• n. — Quebec, Automotive

  an expressway; a freeway (see Image 1).

  Type: 1. Origin — Autoroute is used to refer to expressways in Quebec and other French-speaking areas (for the latter, see, e.g. the 2012 quotation). The term has entered Canadian English in some regions as a loan from Canadian French.
  See also Gage-3, s.v. "autoroute", ITP Nelson, s.v. "autoroute", which is described as being used "in Quebec and French-speaking countries", and AHD-5, s.v. "autoroute".