Noun

(en noun)

A passage; a way through.

* 1961 , (Frederic Morton), The Rothschilds , p. 173:

“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’?”

* 1974 , , Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy :

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.

A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

* 1841 , (Charles Dickens), Barnaby Rudge :

a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

* 2011 , Stephen Phelan, The Guardian , 1 Jul 2011:

Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.

(obsolete) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.

* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:

and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare .

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An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.

Noun

(uncountable) The act of entering.

(uncountable) Permission to enter.

entry for children only if accompanied by an adult

A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.

A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms

A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships

An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

(linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.