central reservation
English edit
Noun edit
central reservation (plural central reservations)
- (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a motorway or dual carriageway.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 26:
- The driver of one of the cars had come through the windscreen. He was lying on his back on the central reservation like the effigy on an old church tomb.
- (UK) Synonym: reservation
- (US) Synonyms: median strip, median, (Louisiana) neutral ground
Translations edit
area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic — see median strip