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Way

weɪ

Way definitions
noun
way ways
  1. a method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action

    "I hated their way of cooking potatoes"

    • one's characteristic or habitual manner of behaviour or expression

      "it was not his way to wait passively for things to happen"

    • the customary behaviour or practices of a group

      "my years of acclimatization to British ways"

    • the typical manner in which something happens or in which someone or something behaves

      "he was showing off, as is the way with adolescent boys"

    • a particular aspect of something; a respect

      "I have changed in every way"

    • a specified condition or state

      "the family was in a poor way"

  2. a road, track, or path for travelling along

    "No. 3, Church Way"

    • a course of travel or route taken in order to reach a place

      "can you tell me the way to Leicester Square?"

    • a specified direction of travel or movement

      "we just missed another car coming the other way"

    • a means of entry or exit from somewhere, such as a door or gate

      "I nipped out the back way"

    • a distance travelled or to be travelled; the distance from one place to another

      "they still had a long way ahead of them"

    • a period between one point in time and another

      "September was a long way off"

    • travel or motion along a particular route; the route along which someone or something would travel if unobstructed

      "Christine tried to follow but Martin blocked her way"

    • used with a verb and adverbial phrase to intensify the force of an action or to denote movement or progress

      "I shouldered my way to the bar"

    • a particular area or locality

      "the family's main estate over Maidenhead way"

  3. parts into which something divides or is divided

    "the national vote split three ways"

  4. a person's occupation or line of business
  5. forward motion or momentum of a ship or boat through water

    "the dinghy lost way and drifted towards the shore"

  6. a sloping structure down which a new ship is launched