English Explanatory Dictionary

way

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. To do with a place or places.
  2. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
  3. A means to enter or leave a place.
  4. A roughly-defined geographical area.
  5. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
  6. A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
  7. A state or condition
  8. Personal interaction.
  9. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
  10. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
  11. A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
  12. Speed, progress, momentum.
intj
  1. Yes; it is true; it is possible.
verb
  1. To travel.
adv
  1. Far.
  2. Much, far, by a great degree.
  3. Very.
adj
  1. Extreme, far
noun
  1. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
noun
  1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
name
  1. Christianity.
  2. Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
  3. Clipping of South Downs Way.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3265).

Pronunciation

wā /weɪ/ [weː] [weɪ] [wɛj] [wæɪ] En-uk-way.ogg En-us-way.ogg

Word forms

way ways waye waie waying wayed 'way

Etymology

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese, Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).

Synonyms

way yes way far much a lot loads so very so much web Tao

Related words

railway railroad tramway waterway racetrack racecourse air corridor corridor passage bridge crossroads junction intersection settlement course itinerary route double-u

Derived words

3-way a bob each way accessway across the way Aemilian Way airway aisleway a little goes a long way a little of something goes a long way alleyway all the way all the way to Egery and back all the way to Sunday all-way stop along the way alway American way any old kind of way anyway any way any way one cuts it any way one slices it any which way arborway archway around the way a straw shows which way the wind blows backway barrow-way barway beltway be on one's merry way beway bikeway bilgeway Blessing Way blueway branchway breezeway bridleway Broadway busway by a long way by the way by the way of byway by-way by way of by way of example cableway carpetway carriageway cartway cellarway change one's ways churchway clear the way clearway colorway colourway

Translations

Albanian: mënyrë Antillean Creole: jan Antillean Creole: mannyè Antillean Creole: istil Arabic: طَرِيقَة Arabic: طريقة Armenian: եղանակ Armenian: կերպ Armenian: ճանապարհ Azerbaijani: cür Azerbaijani: sayaq Azerbaijani: yol Azerbaijani: minval Azerbaijani: üsul Bashkir: юл Bulgarian: на́чин Burmese: နည်း Catalan: manera Cebuano: paagi Chinese Mandarin: 方法 Chinese Mandarin: 辦法 /办法 Chinese Mandarin: 方式 Czech: způsob Danish: måde Danish: facon Dutch: manier Esperanto: maniero Finnish: tapa French: manière French: façon French: moyen Old French: manere Friulian: mût Georgian: ხერხი German: Weise German: Art German: Methode Greek: τρόπος Ancient Greek: ὁδός Haitian Creole: fason Hebrew: דרך Hebrew: שיטה Hindi: तरह Hindi: विधि Hindi: तरीक़ा Hungarian: mód Indonesian: cara Indonesian: metode Ingrian: tapa Ingrian: mooto Ingrian: viisi Ingrian: koosi Interlingua: maniera Interlingua: modo Irish: bealach Irish: slí Italian: maniera Italian: modo Japanese: 手段 Japanese: 手口 Japanese: 方法 Japanese: 仕方 Kashubian: spòsób Khmer: វិធី Khmer: ពិធី Korean: 방법 Central Kurdish: جۆر Lao: ວິທີ Latin: modus Latin: ratio Latin: genus Latvian: veids
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