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# thoroughfare

«thoroughfare» in Mova's school dictionary: **a main road or street through a town or city, used by a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a thoroughfare, thoroughfares)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thoroughfare is a main road or street through a town or city, used by a lot of traffic and people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#m1)

2) A thoroughfare is also any route or passage that people go through from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and local history it names the busy main roads of a town. On signs «No thoroughfare» means you may not go through: it is a private road or a dead end. Phrases: a busy thoroughfare, main thoroughfare, no thoroughfare.

### examples

- Oxford Street is a busy London thoroughfare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x1)
- The old market square was the town's main thoroughfare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x2)
- The sign on the gate said «No thoroughfare». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x3)
- The alley is a popular thoroughfare for pupils walking to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x4)
- Cross the busy thoroughfare only at the lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x5)
- Horses and carts once filled the city's thoroughfares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x6)
- One of the branches of the tree had, however, been broken: mischievous hands must have done this in passing, for the tree now stood in a public thoroughfare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/#x7)

### note

Countable. Spelling: thorough + fare: tho-rough-fare. «Thorough» here keeps its old meaning «through». «No thoroughfare» on a sign means no way through, not «no fare to pay».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thoroughfare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoroughfare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.