thoroughfare

[ thur-oh-fair, -uh-fair, thuhr- ]

/ ˈθɜr oʊˌfɛər, -əˌfɛər, ˈθʌr- /

a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.

a major road or highway.

a passage or way through: no thoroughfare.

a strait, river, or the like, affording passage.

Origin of thoroughfare

First recorded in 1350–1400, thoroughfare is from the Middle English word thurghfare. See thorough, fare

Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare.

‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis |Nina Strochlic |November 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
On a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, the artist Andy Golub painted the bodies of nude models.

Naked on a New York Street—for Art |Emily Shire |September 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A thoroughfare for freedom beat Freedom from Washington regulation is more like it!

Mitt Romney Finds the Funny in ‘America the Beautiful’ (VIDEO) |Mark Katz |February 10, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
You must live "below" Market street, which means somewhere south of that thoroughfare.

The Personality of American Cities |Edward Hungerford

The edges of the thoroughfare were paths for the cottagers, all of whom walked and were glad and grateful even to be able to walk.

The Kentucky Warbler |James Lane Allen
T was a teaching of the old Rabbis that no one should make a thoroughfare of the Temple, or enter it with the dust upon his feet.

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year |John Henry Jowett
Excepting the footpaths through it, it bore no appearance of having ever been a thoroughfare.

A Bird-Lover in the West |Olive Thorne Miller
It is no longer a thoroughfare, for in its length of half a block it has neither beginning nor end.

Literary New York |Charles Hemstreet

thoroughfare

/ (ˈθʌrəˌfɛə) /

a road from one place to another, esp a main road

way through or access no thoroughfare