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thoroughway en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:

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