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thoroughway

thoroughway noun: a way through, passageway.

Noun

thoroughway (plural thoroughways)

  1. A way through, passageway.
    • Only at Knossos we have to observe that for the convenience of the palace this corridor has become a thoroughway past the front of the shrine in either direction.1908, The Annual of the British School at Athens, volume 14, page 367
  2. A thoroughfare.
    • Today the street is still a central thoroughway through the old city, though now converted to a pedestrian zone and called the Breite Herzog-Strasse.1998, Paul Spalding, Johann Lorenz Schmidt, Seize the Book, Jail the Author

Forms of thoroughway

pluralthoroughways

Origin of thoroughway

From Middle English *thurghwei (attested in plural form thurghweies, thorouȝ-weies, þurȝ-weies), equivalent to thorough- + way. Doublet of throughway.

Questions about thoroughway

What does thoroughway mean?
Thoroughway means a way through, passageway.
What part of speech is thoroughway?
Thoroughway is a noun.
What is the plural of thoroughway?
The plural of thoroughway is thoroughways.

Words near thoroughway in the dictionary

  1. thoroughpins
  2. thoroughs
  3. thoroughsped
  4. thoroughstitch
  5. thoroughwax
  6. thoroughway
  7. thoroughways
  8. thoroughwort
  9. thoroughworts
  10. thorow
  11. thorowly

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