thoroughfare

1. (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.Examples: "“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’?”"; "In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare, shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark."countableuncountable

2. (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.Examples: "The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare."; "and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare."uncountable