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[ thur-oh-fair, -uh-fair, thuhr- ] / ˈθɜr oʊˌfɛər, -əˌfɛər, ˈθʌr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR thoroughfare ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna 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. Origin of thoroughfareFirst recorded in 1350–1400, thoroughfare is from the Middle English word thurghfare.See thorough, fare Words nearby thoroughfarethoron, thorough, thorough bass, thorough brace, thoroughbred, thoroughfare, thoroughgoing, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, thoroughpin, thoroughwort Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for thoroughfareIn 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
A thoroughfare for freedom beat Freedom from Washington regulation is more like it! Mitt Romney Finds the Funny in ‘America the Beautiful’ (VIDEO)|Mark Katz|February 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST You must live "below" Market street, which means somewhere south of that thoroughfare. The Personality of American Cities|Edward Hungerford The edges of the thoroughfare were paths for the cottagers, all of whom walked and were glad and grateful even to be able to walk. The Kentucky Warbler|James Lane Allen T was a teaching of the old Rabbis that no one should make a thoroughfare of the Temple, or enter it with the dust upon his feet. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year|John Henry Jowett Excepting the footpaths through it, it bore no appearance of having ever been a thoroughfare. A Bird-Lover in the West|Olive Thorne Miller It is no longer a thoroughfare, for in its length of half a block it has neither beginning nor end. Literary New York|Charles Hemstreet
British Dictionary definitions for thoroughfare
nouna road from one place to another, esp a main road way through or accessno thoroughfare Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to thoroughfarelane, boulevard, freeway, street, artery, expressway, avenue, highway, causeway, waterway, strait, passage, road, turnpike, path, channel, parkway |