thoroughfare
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈθɜroʊˌfɛr/
:
vía principal
- The city has designed bike lanes along the main thoroughfare to enhance safety for cyclists.
- the main thoroughfare
- the major thoroughfare
- the principal thoroughfare
There's a main thoroughfare called Parliament St Yeah.
- There's a main thoroughfare called Parliament St Yeah.
- So Congress, for those of you guys who don't know, is a main thoroughfare in Austin that leads directly to the state Capitol.
- Wait for the loud truck to go by on this very busy thoroughfare, but you could pave it, You can gravel it.
- This area, this was of course, a thoroughfare for all of our people, both by the sea and the land.
Examples
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The street was a major thoroughfare in Oxnard, and she simply followed the numbers.
Fiction book (1993) -
We are only feet from the main thoroughfare, only a block from the Hotel Casino.
Fiction book (2001) -
When they reach the end of the thoroughfare, the public part of the performance ends.
Academic text (2003) -
The second group comprises those towns in which the principal thoroughfare has little or no commercial activity.
Academic text (2004) -
Consequently, he walked slowly towards the main thoroughfare, hands in his pockets, thinking as he went.
Fiction book (1993) -
The window overlooked Highway 101, the main thoroughfare down the Oregon Coast.
Fiction book (1999) -
A crowd gathers in one of the main thoroughfares bisecting the 5 Points.
Fiction book (2002) -
Both east and west Colfax Avenue became principal urban thoroughfares by the late nineteenth century.
Academic text (1992) -
As Jenny and Amsterdam walk through the noisy bustle of the city's main thoroughfare.
Fiction book (2002) -
Solomon Carvalho noted cottonwoods planted along the main thoroughfares and saplings along the side streets (1857, 141).
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
A public road in a town or city with buildings and sidewalks
∞
1.0
A wide hard surface for cars and people to travel between places
∞
1.0
A road or path people use to travel between places
670
1.0
A wide street often lined with trees and shops
629
1.0
A main road that connects big towns or cities for long trips
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3.5
A wide city street often lined with trees
35
1.1
A big road that carries most traffic and connects towns
23
1.4
The main road in a town where most shops and businesses are
9
1.8
A wide road built for fast traffic with two or more lanes each way and few exits
7
2.5
A road you must pay to drive on, often a highway
5
4.1
A wide road for fast traffic with few places to enter or leave
3
4.4
A main road that carries a lot of traffic through a city
3
3.7
A road you must pay to use
1
9.3
A wide road for cars with trees and grass usually outside cities
1
3.2
A major road that carries a lot of traffic and connects important parts of a city
1
6.7
A main road that connects cities or towns
A main road used by many cars to travel between places
A path for bicycles and other vehicles with wheels
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thoroughfare comes from old words through and fare ('to go' or 'a journey'). So a thoroughfare is a road that goes 'through' an area and is a main way people use to travel from one place to another.