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thoroughfarers

thoroughfarers is the plural of thoroughfarer.

Meaning of thoroughfarer

Noun

thoroughfarer (plural thoroughfarers)

  1. (archaic, rare) One who travels through a place.
    • This town is also notorious for the mischief and trouble it gives thoroughfarers; and but for our coming under the protection of Dowilnyah, it soon fell out what would have happened.1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 229

Questions about thoroughfarers

What is thoroughfarers the plural of?
Thoroughfarers is the plural of thoroughfarer.

Words near thoroughfarers in the dictionary

  1. thoroughbreeds
  2. thorougher
  3. thoroughest
  4. thoroughfare
  5. thoroughfarer
  6. thoroughfarers
  7. thoroughfares
  8. thoroughflow
  9. thoroughgo
  10. thoroughgoing
  11. thoroughgoingly

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