thoroughway

English

Etymology

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

Noun

thoroughway (plural thoroughways)

  1. A way through, passageway.
    • 1908, The Annual of the British School at Athens, volume 14, page 367:
      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.
    • 1998, Paul Spalding, Johann Lorenz Schmidt, Seize the Book, Jail the Author:
      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.
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