thoroughway

Etymology

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

noun

  1. A way through, passageway.“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.“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.”