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thruway

thruway is the standard form of throughway.

Meaning of throughway

Noun

throughway (plural throughways)

  1. (US) (Normally and officially spelled thruway) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) An continuous, open passage, corridor, or pathway that allows people to walk or move directly from one point to another without obstruction.

Forms of thruway

pluralthruways

Origin of thruway

From thru + way.

Phrases with thruway

Questions about thruway

What is thruway the standard form of?
Thruway is the standard form of throughway.

Words near thruway in the dictionary

  1. thrutches up
  2. thrutching
  3. thrutching up
  4. Thruthvang
  5. thruv
  6. thruway
  7. thruways
  8. Thruxton
  9. Thrybergh
  10. thryfallow
  11. thryfallowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thruway (page history and authors); throughway (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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