the.com/thoroughfare
A road with commitment issues that refuses to dead-end on anybody.
means A road, street, or passage that runs all the way through, connecting one place to another without dead-ending.
from A blunt Old English compound: 'thuruh' (through) plus 'faru' (a going, a journey) — literally a 'through-fare,' a way you can go all the way along. That same 'fare,' meaning to travel, still lingers in 'farewell' (travel well), 'wayfarer,' and 'seafaring.' So a thoroughfare is, at its root, simply a place you can fare clean through.
- literal roots
- Old English for a way you fare straight through.
- legal teeth
- Blocking a public thoroughfare is a crime in many places.
- the opposite
- A cul-de-sac is a thoroughfare's cowardly cousin.
- river kin
- Once meant navigable waterways, not just streets.
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