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go someone's way

Variant of way

noun

  1. a means of passing from one place to another, as a road, highway, street or path: the Appian Way
  2. room or space for passing; free area; an opening, as in a crowd or traffic: clear a way for the ambulance
  3. a route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another: often used in combination: highway, railway, one-way street
  4. a specified route or direction: on the way to town
  5. a path in life; course or habits of life or conduct: to fall into evil ways
    1. a course of action; method or manner of doing something: do it this way
    2. a means to an end; method: a way to cut costs
  6. a usual or customary manner of living, acting, or being: the way of the world
  7. a characteristic manner of acting or doing: to learn the ways of other people
  8. manner or style: to have a pleasant way
  9. distance: a long way off
  10. direction of movement or action: go this way; look this way
  11. respect; point; particular; feature: to be right in some ways
  12. what one desires; wish; will: to have or get one's own way
  13. range or scope, as of experience: a method that never came in his way
  14. relationship as to those taking part: used in hyphenated compounds: a four-way conversation
  15. Informal a (specified) state or condition: to be in a bad way
  16. Informal a district; locality; area: out our way
  17. Law, Now Rare right of way (sense )
  18. Mech. a surface or slide on which the carriage of a lathe, etc. moves along its bed
  19. Naut. a ship's movement or momentum through water
  20. Shipbuilding a timber framework on which a ship is built and along which it slides in launching

Origin: ME < OE weg, akin to Ger < IE base *weĝh-, to go > L vehere, to carry, ride, Gr ochos, wagon

adverb

Informal away; far; to a considerable extent or at some distance: way behind
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