thoroughfares

noun

plural of thoroughfare
as in highways
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel one of the city's main thoroughfares

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Recent Examples of thoroughfares According to the county, road improvements are coming for some of the thoroughfares near Boca Lago. — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026 Schools remain closed and downed trees are blocking major thoroughfares. — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 The councilmember acknowledged the overhaul of Hopkins Street was a monumental decision, one that would reshape transportation on one of the major thoroughfares connecting East and West Berkeley. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026 For example, in the San Fernando Valley, a person could leave the car at home when in walking proximity to bus lines on major thoroughfares, such as Line 165 on Vanowen Street that connects Burbank to West Hills. — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026 Towns were depopulated or abandoned altogether; farmland was left fallow; forests regrew; busy thoroughfares fell silent and grand villas derelict. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 Officials in La Grange are looking at how to improve one of the main thoroughfares in town. — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026 In squares and main thoroughfares, vendors were seen selling Egyptian flags, whistles and fan paraphernalia in preparation for the game. — ABC News, 7 July 2026 There was also a huge security perimeter, with major thoroughfares around MSG closed off to cars and pedestrians. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoroughfares
  1. highways
  2. roads
  3. streets
  4. freeways
  5. boulevards
  6. expressways
  7. routes
  8. roadways
Noun
  • Key Biscayne The Village of Key Biscayne strictly prohibits all micromobility devices on streets, highways, sidewalks, bicycle paths, multiuse paths and trails, beaches and dunes unless otherwise authorized.
    — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Two men were sentenced Thursday for staging crashes on New York City highways to get fraudulent insurance payouts.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • Nepal’s Department of Roads says at least 19 motorable bridges and around 40 kilometers of roads have also been damaged or washed away.
    — Milad Haghani, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Rescue efforts, still in their first stages, have been hampered by the fact that the floodwaters have washed away entire roads.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • The Basij run a nationwide network of volunteers who maintain a presence in the streets, government offices and cultural centers, seeking to ensure loyalty and ideological purity for Iran’s theocracy.
    — Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • This location is more residential, with quieter streets and approachable local trattorias, but offers several architecturally significant palaces and one of the city's oldest churches, the 11th-century San Zan Degola.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • The parking lot is west of Magnolia Avenue and just north of the interchange of the 91 and 5 freeways.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Born to Mary Florence Webb, a nurse, and John Sherman Heilmann, a civil engineer, Heilmann split her childhood between the Bay Area and, after her father took a job building freeways, Los Angeles, by way of El Segundo, a seaside village nearby.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeways
Noun
  • Then the musical group collated the various streets, roads, places, drives, boulevards and cardinal directions into 53 seconds of gold.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is circulating photos of 27 people seen earlier this month at the auto supply business at Atlantic and Olympic boulevards.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of boulevards
Noun
  • The firm noted that major bridges like the Donghai Bridge and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, as well as regional expressways, have reopened with standard speed limits restored.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
Definition of expressways
Noun
  • From classic Amtrak routes crossing the Continental Divide to historic steam locomotives chugging through the state’s mining past, these journeys continue to preserve the stories, scenery and communities that helped shape the West.
    — Jocelyn Rowley, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2026
  • In a bid to control traffic through the narrow waterway, Iran has designated routes going through their territorial waters.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of routes
Noun
  • For Pittsburghers, the project targets one of the city's most recognizable and heavily traveled roadways.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The nature of the structure — with roadways cantilevered out under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — precludes replacing one lane at a time, city officials told reporters last week.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of roadways

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“Thoroughfares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoroughfares. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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