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thorofare

thorofare noun: a thoroughfare; a road, path, or way forming a route between two places.

Noun

thorofare (plural thorofares)

  1. (simplified spelling) A thoroughfare; a road, path, or way forming a route between two places.
    • Gaines Avenue was once a "Quality Street". It runs on a diagonal from Malvern Avenue, a one-time first class residential thorofare to the Missouri Pacific Tracks.1941, Slave Narratives, Vol. II, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008
    • Thorofare planning is closely interwoven …1951, Ruth Baumann, A Framework for Thorofare Planning in Madison Metropolitan Area, Digitized edition, University of Wisconsin, published 2007, page 1

Forms of thorofare

pluralthorofares
alternative formthoroughfare

Questions about thorofare

What does thorofare mean?
Thorofare means a thoroughfare; a road, path, or way forming a route between two places.
What part of speech is thorofare?
Thorofare is a noun.
What is the plural of thorofare?
The plural of thorofare is thorofares.

Words near thorofare in the dictionary

  1. thornyheads
  2. thoro
  3. thorocene
  4. thoroer
  5. thoroest
  6. thorofare
  7. thorofares
  8. Thorogood
  9. Thorogoods
  10. thorogummite
  11. Thorold

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