thoroughfare

[ thur-oh-fair, -uh-fair, thuhr- ]

/ ˈθɜr oʊˌfɛər, -əˌfɛər, ˈθʌr- /

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noun

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

First recorded in 1350–1400, thoroughfare is from the Middle English word thurghfare.See thorough, fare

Words nearby thoroughfare

thoron, thorough, thorough bass, thorough brace, thoroughbred, thoroughfare, thoroughgoing, thoroughly, thoroughness, thoroughpaced, thoroughpin

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How to use thoroughfare in a sentence

The Park Service also said the Memorial Bridge and parts of major thoroughfares downtown, including Constitution, Pennsylvania and Independence avenues, would be blocked.
National Mall will be closed for nearly a week, Park Service announces|Justin Jouvenal|January 15, 2021|Washington Post
Its main thoroughfare, 3rd Street, cuts through both the business and entertainment districts in town.
Des Moines : Come and See All that The Capital City has to Offer!|LGBTQ-Editor|November 22, 2020|No Straight News
We ducked into the woods behind our house in Vermont, crossed the neighbor’s field, and emerged onto a quiet gravel track that was once a thoroughfare to a copper mine.
The Case for Hiking Ugly Trails|Krista Karlson|November 21, 2020|Outside Online
In New York City, the Metro Transit Authority trialed a system on major thoroughfares with a reported rate of 0% accuracy.
There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Unlike many clubs, the Stonewall Inn, which opened in March 1967, was on a main thoroughfare instead of a side street.
How the New York Media Covered The Stonewall Riots|LGBTQ-Editor|June 23, 2020|No Straight News
Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis|Nina Strochlic|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, the artist Andy Golub painted the bodies of nude models.
Naked on a New York Street—for Art|Emily Shire|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Libya in general is a major thoroughfare, the I-95 for foreign fighters into Syria from Africa,” the U.S. defense official said.
Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya|Eli Lake|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, long a major thoroughfare for illegal immigration, stands out as an outlier.
At Mexican Border, Four in Five Drug Busts Involve American Citizens|Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz, Tia Ghose|March 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In Hebron, Israeli settlers occupy the main thoroughfare and commonly attack Palestinians.
Hebron's Independent Women, Part I|Simran Sachdev|October 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
A cross-road from the Black Caon road would place them in the thoroughfare that ran past the house.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run|Stanley R. Matthews
Matt took the cross-road on two wheels, and, half a minute later, lurched into the main thoroughfare in the same way.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run|Stanley R. Matthews
But in the great thoroughfare the tide of vehicles and foot passengers was perceptibly thinning.
A Butterfly on the Wheel|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
"It is a crowded thoroughfare," the man remarked nervously, looking up and down Shaftesbury Avenue.
The Double Four|E. Phillips Oppenheim

British Dictionary definitions for thoroughfare

thoroughfare

/ (ˈθʌrəˌfɛə) /

noun

a road from one place to another, esp a main road

way through or accessno thoroughfare

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