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thoroughfare

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

noun

  1. a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  2. a major road or highway.
  3. a passage or way through:

    no thoroughfare.

  4. a strait, river, or the like, affording passage.


thoroughfare

/ ˈθʌrəˌfɛə /

noun

  1. a road from one place to another, esp a main road
  2. way through or access

    no thoroughfare



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Word History and Origins

Origin of thoroughfare1

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

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Example Sentences

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.

“Libya in general is a major thoroughfare, the I-95 for foreign fighters into Syria from Africa,” the U.S. defense official said.

The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, long a major thoroughfare for illegal immigration, stands out as an outlier.

In Hebron, Israeli settlers occupy the main thoroughfare and commonly attack Palestinians.

Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.

A cross-road from the Black Caon road would place them in the thoroughfare that ran past the house.

Matt took the cross-road on two wheels, and, half a minute later, lurched into the main thoroughfare in the same way.

But in the great thoroughfare the tide of vehicles and foot passengers was perceptibly thinning.

"It is a crowded thoroughfare," the man remarked nervously, looking up and down Shaftesbury Avenue.

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