THOROUGHFARE

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I. (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)

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Context examples:

A few minutes later, we had stopped at a large mansion in the busiest thoroughfare.

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

We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning.

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

“This is the street,” said he, as we turned into a short thoroughfare lined with plain two-storied brick houses.

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

In silence, too, they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion.

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

It was a warm, dusty evening, just the time when, in the great main thoroughfare out of which that by-way turned, there was a temporary lull in the eternal tread of feet upon the pavement, and a strong red sunshine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.