thoroughfare
[thur-oh-fair, -uh-fair, thuhr-]
- a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- a major road or highway.
- a passage or way through: no thoroughfare.
- a strait, river, or the like, affording passage.
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Origin of thoroughfare
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Contemporary Examples
Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare.
On a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, the artist Andy Golub painted the bodies of nude models.
A thoroughfare for freedom beat Freedom from Washington regulation is more like it!
Historical Examples
The path was wider and more worn now--almost a thoroughfare, in fact.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
Quickly her glance returned to his face; his gaze was bent down the thoroughfare.
The StrollersFrederic S. Isham
Hitch Pegasus to a family cart and he can't go off the thoroughfare.
Potts's Painless CureEdward Bellamy
It would entirely change the thoroughfare of the world's commerce.
It turned their hopes and aspirations in a way which was really "no thoroughfare."
The Negro and the NationGeorge S. Merriam
thoroughfare
- a road from one place to another, esp a main road
- way through or accessno thoroughfare
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Word Origin and History for thoroughfare
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