thoroughway

thoroughway

English

Etymology

From Middle English *thurghwei (attested in plural form thurghweies, thorouʒ-weies, þurʒ-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.