thoroughfare
thoroughfare
Definition
thorough·fare (-fer′)
thoroughfare
Synonyms
thoroughfare
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pedestrianize: This pedestrianized thoroughfare has more than 100 shops and an open-air market.
- bustle: From Lancaster's bustling thoroughfares this pale, elegant vision is evident, high up in its verdant setting.
- know: It had previously existed as a thoroughfare known as Gibson's Wynd, after Walter Gibson, who was Provost in 1688.
- become: Spiral Passage used to be one of the more obscure passages in the system, but it is now rapidly becoming a major thoroughfare.
- line: An avenue is a tree lined thoroughfare, isn't it?
- form: High Street and Fore Street formed a wide spinal thoroughfare where the markets were held.
Adjective modifier
- north-south: George St is the Sydney CBD's main north-south thoroughfare.
- crowded: All the glee of a crowded thoroughfare had suddenly ceased.
- busy: She lived in a shop on Angel Lane, which was a busy thoroughfare.
- main: He was murdered in the main thoroughfare of the Bazaar in broad daylight.
- pedestrian: The Ramblas are a tree-lined pedestrian thoroughfare running from Plaza Catalunya to Barcelona port district.
- narrow: On the west side of this narrow thoroughfare stood the early Episcopal Chapel of Leith.
Modifies a noun
- field: I need for this to be separated into the Street Name field, Thoroughfare field and the Post Directional field.
Noun used with modifier
- shopping: There is no real main shopping thoroughfare, many shops are located in the side streets off the main high street.
Possessives
- city: The people filling the city's main thoroughfares are part of a huge silent demonstration of protest.
- town: The town's main thoroughfares were carefully planned out with the large market square at the center and close to the Priory gates.
Preposition: in
- city: However continual use quickly cleared the main thoroughfares in the city of snow.
Preposition: of
- town: This is the main commercial thoroughfare of the town.
- city: In 1998 the City of Turin commissioned 14 Italian artists to design Christmas illuminations for the thoroughfares of the city.
Preposition: for
- traffic: Set up the New Life for Main Roads project to make high streets better places for people as well as thoroughfares for traffic.
thoroughfare Quotes
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
Browse dictionary entries near thoroughfare
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- Thos
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