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thoroughways

thoroughways is the plural of thoroughway.

Meaning of thoroughway

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

Questions about thoroughways

What is thoroughways the plural of?
Thoroughways is the plural of thoroughway.

Words near thoroughways in the dictionary

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

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