Thoroughway
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English *thurghwei (attested in plural form thurghweies, thorouȝ-weies, þurȝ-weies), equivalent to thorough- + way. Doublet of throughway.
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