Service Area (Noun)
Meaning
Place on a highway providing garage services and eating and toilet facilities.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The service area had a large restaurant with many tables and a separate building for the toilets and showers.
- There was a service area about 20 miles down the highway where we could stop for food and gas.
- A sign on the highway indicated the location of a nearby service area with parking spaces for trucks and cars.
- The weary travelers pulled into a service area to use the bathroom and grab a snack from the vending machines.
- We got lost on the way and had to stop at a service area to ask for directions and refuel our car.