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way
weɪ Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.
    E.g. I hated their way of cooking potatoes
  • a road, track, or path for travelling along.
    E.g. No. 3, Church Way
  • parts into which something divides or is divided.
    E.g. the national vote split three ways
  • a person's occupation or line of business.
  • forward motion or momentum of a ship or boat through water.
    E.g. the dinghy lost way and drifted towards the shore
  • a sloping structure down which a new ship is launched.
adverb
  • at or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis).
    E.g. his understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target
-way
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Meanings
suffix
  • equivalent to -ways.

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