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