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thoroughfare Definition

thorough·fare (-fer′)

noun

  1. a way through or passage through
  2. a public street open at both ends; esp., such a street through which there is much traffic; highway; main road

Etymology: ME thurghfare: see through & fare

thoroughfare Synonyms

thoroughfare

n.

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.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

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