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speedway

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English

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Etymology

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From speed +‎ way.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)

  1. (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
    Synonym: motorcycle speedway
  2. (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
    Synonyms: cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
  3. A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
    Synonyms: motor speedway, motospeedway, motorway
    1. A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
      1. A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
  4. (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From English speedway.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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speedway

  1. speedway

Declension

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Inflection of speedway (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative speedway speedwayt
genitive speedwayn speedwayiden
speedwayitten
partitive speedwaytä speedwayitä
illative speedwayhin
speedwayhyn
speedwayihin
singular plural
nominative speedway speedwayt
accusative nom. speedway speedwayt
gen. speedwayn
genitive speedwayn speedwayiden
speedwayitten
partitive speedwaytä speedwayitä
inessive speedwayssä speedwayissä
elative speedwaystä speedwayistä
illative speedwayhin
speedwayhyn
speedwayihin
adessive speedwayllä speedwayillä
ablative speedwayltä speedwayiltä
allative speedwaylle speedwayille
essive speedwaynä speedwayinä
translative speedwayksi speedwayiksi
abessive speedwayttä speedwayittä
instructive speedwayin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of speedway (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

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