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Word Meanings - THOROUGHFARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley. 2. A passing or going through; passage. Hell and

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1. A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley. 2. A passing or going through; passage. Hell and this world -- one realm, one continent Of easy thoroughfare. Milton.

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  • PUBLIC-SPIRITED
    1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
  • PUBLICLY
    1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
  • PUBLIC SCHOOL
    In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
    A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
  • PUBLICNESS
    1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • PUBLICAN
    A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • PUBLICATION
    1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
  • PUBLICITY
    The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
  • PATHWAY
    A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • PUBLIC-MINDED
    Public-spirited. -- Pub"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • PUBLIC
    1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. To the public good Private respects must yield. Milton. He touched the dead
  • PUBLIC-HEARTED
    Public-spirited.
  • PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
    A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
  • HIGHWAYMAN
    One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
  • ROUTE
    The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay. (more info) rupta , fr. ruptus, p.p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally,
  • ROUTER
    A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
  • HIGHWAY
    A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare. Syn. -- Way; road; path; course.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLOCKING COURSE
    The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
  • CONCOURSE
    1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
  • UNPATHWAYED
    Pathless. "The smooth, unpathwayed plain." Wordsworth.

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