All 3 Uses of
thoroughfare
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- They lay right across the way, blocking the thoroughfare.†
Chpt 2.4 *thoroughfare = main road
- "Shall I go there or not?" thought Raskolnikov, standing in the middle of the thoroughfare at the cross-roads, and he looked about him, as though expecting from someone a decisive word.†
Chpt 2.6
- It did not frighten him, but greatly annoyed him, so that he made haste to return to the town, to mingle with the crowd, to enter restaurants and taverns, to walk in busy thoroughfares.†
Chpt 6.1thoroughfares = main roads
Definition:
a road -- typically a main road, but potentially any road, path, or means of getting from one place to another