Meanings
nounthoroughlane (plural thoroughlanes)
plural thoroughlanes
- A way through, thoroughway.
The streets all go steeply down hill from the main thoroughlanes, they twist and turn.
2009, George B. Bookman, Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines, page 3441 more example
We thought we'd taken a thoroughlane, but it must have been a hook road or a circlepath that with a netherbend led us through slant grass into this mortal vale.
2003, Jaap Blonk, Let's go out
Origin
From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.
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APA
thoroughlane. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoroughlane
MLA
“thoroughlane.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoroughlane. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thoroughlane,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thoroughlane.
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