Thoroughfare

Quick meaning: Thoroughfare is a noun meaning (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.

Meaning

(now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.

More Meanings

1. A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
2. (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
3. An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

Example Sentences

East [Street] and West Street form a single thoroughfare running as a backbone through the village, flanked by neat, painted cottages of predominantly 18th-century brick.

Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.

In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark.

But the town handed Trump a rare defeat last week when town commissioners voted unanimously not to rename the island’s main thoroughfare from Gulf of Mexico Drive to Gulf of America Drive.

Word Forms

• thoroughfares
• thorofare
• thoroughfair
• thorowfair

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include way, pathway, street, path, avenue, boulevard.

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