thoroughfarer

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noun

One who travels through a place.

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Meanings

nounthoroughfarer (plural thoroughfarers)

plural thoroughfarers

  1. archaicrareOne who travels through a place.

    […] isolated spot seldom passed by thoroughfarers and by reason of its lack of shade had no attraction for loiterers.

    1920, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 192, page 14
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    This town is also notorious for the mischief and trouble it gives thoroughfarers; and but for our coming under the protection of Dowilnyah, it soon fell out what would have happened.

    1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 229
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APA

thoroughfarer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoroughfarer

MLA

“thoroughfarer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoroughfarer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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