Usually means: Pathway designed for travel, passage.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word thoroughfare:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. thoroughfare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thoroughfare: Merriam-Webster
  3. thoroughfare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thoroughfare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thoroughfare: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thoroughfare: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thoroughfare, thoroughfare: Wordnik
  8. thoroughfare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thoroughfare: Wiktionary
  10. thoroughfare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thoroughfare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thoroughfare: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thoroughfare: Dictionary.com
  14. thoroughfare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thoroughfare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thoroughfare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thoroughfare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thoroughfare: Rhymezone
  19. Thoroughfare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thoroughfare: FreeDictionary.org
  21. thoroughfare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. thoroughfare: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. thoroughfare: Legal dictionary
  3. thoroughfare: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thoroughfare: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thoroughfare: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.
▸ noun:  A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
▸ noun:  An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

Similar:
throughfare, pace, forthright, alure, went, road, wayfare, place, forthfare, fare, more...

Opposite:
dead end, cul-de-sac

Types:
highway, freeway, road, street, lane, boulevard, turnpike, more...

Phrases:
no thoroughfare, Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, urban thoroughfare, more...

Adjectives:
main, great, public, busy, major, principal, broad, crowded, wide, narrow, important

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Similar:
throughfare, pace, forthright, alure, went, road, wayfare, place, forthfare, fare, more...

Opposite:
dead end, cul-de-sac

Types:
highway, freeway, road, street, lane, boulevard, turnpike, more...

Phrases:
no thoroughfare, Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, urban thoroughfare, more...

Adjectives:
main, great, public, busy, major, principal, broad, crowded, wide, narrow, important

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     concrete,     graphite,     pewter, more...



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