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Way   /weɪ/   Listen
Way

noun
1.
How something is done or how it happens.  Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style.  "His rapid manner of talking" , "Their nomadic mode of existence" , "In the characteristic New York style" , "A lonely way of life" , "In an abrasive fashion"
2.
How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.  Synonyms: agency, means.  "An example is the best agency of instruction" , "The true way to success"
3.
A line leading to a place or point.  Synonym: direction.  "Didn't know the way home"
4.
The condition of things generally.  "I felt the same way"
5.
A course of conduct.  Synonyms: path, way of life.  "We went our separate ways" , "Our paths in life led us apart" , "Genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
6.
Any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another.
7.
A journey or passage.
8.
Space for movement.  Synonyms: elbow room, room.  "Make way for" , "Hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
9.
The property of distance in general.  "He went a long ways"
10.
Doing as one pleases or chooses.
11.
A general category of things; used in the expression 'in the way of'.
12.
A portion of something divided into shares.
adverb
1.
To a great degree or by a great distance; very much ('right smart' is regional in the United States).  Synonym: right smart.  "Way off base" , "The other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"



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"Way" Quotes from Famous Books



... which had been spent on it by the band of enthusiasts, and it was truly a little triumph of humanism. Further editions were reprinted during the sixteenth century at Basic and at Frankfort-on-Main, but they did not improve in any way upon the first; and the next epoch in the study of Saxo was made by the edition and notes of Stephanus Johansen Stephanius, published at Copenhagen in the middle of the seventeenth century (1644). Stephanius, the first commentator on ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... might serve as a weapon upon occasion. Standing in the grey light of the street, with bare brawny arms and soiled garments, they made all the more striking the transition from the brightness of the Piazza. They were listening to the thin notary, Ser Cioni, who had just paused on his way to the Duomo. His biting words could get only a contemptuous reception two years and a half before in the Mercato, but now he spoke with the more complacent humour of a man whose party is uppermost, and who is conscious of ...
— Romola • George Eliot
... we reached the dark, rapid waters of the Rock River. The ferry which we had travelled so far out of our way to take advantage of, proved to be merely a small boat or skiff, the larger one having been swept off into the stream, and carried down in the breaking-up of the ice, ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
... enough to escape the clutches of the black pirates and come again to the court of Matai Shang I think that we shall find an argument to convince you of the error of your ways. And—," she hesitated, "perhaps we shall find a way to ...
— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... of Ulm, Philipsburg, and Ingolstadt. This was considered as a security for the preliminaries of peace being speedily signed. The news was received with enthusiasm, and that anxious day closed in a way highly gratifying to ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton


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