thruway

Other forms of thruway

plural

thruways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thruway

What does thruway mean?

thruway means "a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic".

How many syllables are in thruway?

thruway has 2 syllables: thru-way. The stress falls on "thru". In IPA it is /ˈθɹuˌweɪ/.

What is another word for thruway?

Close synonyms include expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thruway a common word?

thruway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with thruway?

55 words rhyme with thruway. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.