English Dictionary

thoroughfare

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈθʌɹəfɛː/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through. / A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

日本語の意味

通路：建物や区域を繋ぐ通り抜けるための道筋 / 大通り：両端が開かれ、主要な地域を結ぶ広い道路 / 主要道路：交通の中心となる幹線道路

The ancient castle's underground thoroughfare led from the chapel to the river.

古い城の地下の通路は礼拝堂から川へと続いていた。

意味（1）

(now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.

“I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”

意味（2）

A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.

意味（3）

(uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.

and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare.

意味（4）

An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

thoroughfares （ plural ）