English Explanatory Dictionary

underway

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
noun
  1. A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
  2. An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
  3. A voyage, especially underwater.

Pronunciation

/ʌndəˈweɪ/ /ʌndəɹˈweɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-underway.wav /ˈʌndə(ɹ)weɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-underway2.wav

Word forms

underway more underway most underway under way underways

Etymology

Calque of Dutch onderweg (“underway”), equivalent to under- + way. Compare also German unterwegs.

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