thoroughfares

Noun

thoroughfare (countable and uncountable, plural thoroughfares)

1. (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.
   • “I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”1961, Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, page 173
2. A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
   • Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […].1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Roscoe
3. (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
   • The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.
4. An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.