thoroughfare

Meaning

Noun

• A passage; a way through.
• A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
• The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
• An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

Origin

• From Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- + 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").