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thoroughfare

noun
/ˈθʌɹəfɛː/UK

Etymology

From Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- (“through”) + fare. Compare Old English þurhfaran (“to go through, go over, traverse, pierce, pass through, pass beyond, transcend, penetrate”). Compare also Old English þurhfær (“inner secret place”), German Durchfahrt (“passage through, thoroughfare”).

  1. inherited from thurghfare

Definitions

  1. A passage

    A passage; a way through.

    • “I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”
    • In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark.

  2. A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another

    A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

    • Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […].

  3. The act of going through

    The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.

    • The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.
    • and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at thoroughfare. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at thoroughfare. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at thoroughfare

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA