Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thoroughlane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thor-ough-lane
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A way through, thoroughway.

Example Sentences

"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."
"The streets all go steeply down hill from the main thoroughlanes, they twist and turn."

Etymology

From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.

Inflected Forms

thoroughlanes (plural)

Questions

What does thoroughlane mean?: A way through, thoroughway.
Where does thoroughlane come from?: From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.

How to pronounce thoroughlane

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