THOROUGHFARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thoroughfare mean? 

• THOROUGHFARE (noun)
  The noun THOROUGHFARE has 1 sense:

1. a public road from one place to another

  Familiarity information: THOROUGHFARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOROUGHFARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public road from one place to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("thoroughfare" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thoroughfare"):

artery (a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic)

blind alley; cul de sac; dead-end street; impasse (a street with only one way in or out)

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

street (the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel)

 Context examples 

On the left ran a lane which led to the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a public, though little used, thoroughfare.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within a hundred yards of the house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A locality or minor thoroughfare the address for which must be specified in relationship to a more major one.

(Double Dependent Locality, NCI Thesaurus)

On our way we had to pass through Hudson Street, which is a very quiet thoroughfare.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suspect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip's pagoda, which invariably blocked up the main thoroughfare.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skaguay as they scattered the remainder of the outfit along its chief thoroughfare.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being so entirely out of season, and the no thoroughfare of Lyme, and the no expectation of company, had brought many apologies from the heads of the inn.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At half-past twelve we found ourselves upon the steps of Mrs. Warren’s house—a high, thin, yellow-brick edifice in Great Orme Street, a narrow thoroughfare at the northeast side of the British Museum.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team worked at the rooftop of a ten-story building that belongs to Brazil’s Institute of Physics (IF-USP) in the western part of São Paulo City — a site relatively distant from main traffic thoroughfares which means the aerosols measured there are ‘older’: they have already interacted with other substances present in the atmosphere.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)