Definitions
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- noun US A
thoroughfare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
Etymologies
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Examples
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The thruway is the most expensive roadway in the North east and imho, the worst in the country.
Albany's Insanity 2010
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You can see the compound from a section of elevated thruway.
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I mean, I know I should probably be stuck on the fervent islamists eating in a thruway rest stop where the diet coke has traces of bacon thing, but seriously, they went from Newburgh to the Bronx by way of _Ramapo_?
Well, who does want to commit treason on an empty stomach? 2009
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Then, in 1999, the city of Chicago placed automated external defibrillators within a 60- to 90-second walk of every thruway at Chicago's Midway and Ohare terminals.
In Which You Don't Die In An Airport Matthew Herper 2011
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The makers of the Solar Roadway just got a little closer to their dream of making every road in the United States a high-tech thruway that carries more than just cars.
Energy Generating, Self-Heating Solar Roadway Unveiled! | Inhabitat 2010
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Sedaris doesn't drive, and so he arrived here through a real-life game of Frogger, scurrying over several lanes of traffic from his Marriott across the thruway.
David Sedaris, sharing his slights-of-life tales Monica Hesse 2010
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She comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread
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Sedaris doesn't drive, and so he arrived here through a real-life game of Frogger, scurrying over several lanes of traffic from his Marriott across the thruway.
David Sedaris, sharing his slights-of-life tales Monica Hesse 2010
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Okay, we're going to go across theTappan ZeeBridge, that will take us toYonkerswhere the thruway turns into the Major Deegan.
Castanets '84 Ginnah Howard 2010
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At any rate, by the time I had passed Kingston on my way back on the thruway your own lawyers and those wing-tip zombie ones over at the state party HQ had already filed objections with the BOE and with a kool-aid drunk hack judge in Nassau County.
Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot 2010
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