Dictionary Entry
way
way is a 3-letter English word with 29 senses as adverb, noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Away. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Away.
- 2noun
That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
- 3noun
Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
- 4noun
A moving; passage; procession; journey.
- 5noun
Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
- 6noun
The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
- 7noun
Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
- 8noun
Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
- 9noun
Sphere or scope of observation.
- 10noun
Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
- 11noun
Progress; as, a ship has way.
- 12noun
The timbers on which a ship is launched.
- 13noun
The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
- 14noun
Right of way. See below.
- 15transitive verb
To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
- 16intransitive verb
To move; to progress; to go.
- 17noun
how a result is obtained or an end is achieved
"a means of control"
"an example is the best agency of instruction"
- 18noun
a journey or passage
"they are on the way"
- 19noun
a course of conduct
"the path of virtue"
"we went our separate ways"
Synonyms
- 20noun
any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
"he said he was looking for the way out"
- 21noun
how something is done or how it happens
"her dignified manner"
"his rapid manner of talking"
- 22noun
the property of distance in general
"it's a long way to Moscow"
"he went a long ways"
- 23noun
doing as one pleases or chooses
"if I had my way"
- 24noun
a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
"they didn't have much in the way of clothing"
- 25noun
a line leading to a place or point
"he looked the other direction"
"didn't know the way home"
Synonyms
- 26noun
a portion of something divided into shares
"they split the loot three ways"
- 27noun
space for movement
"room to pass"
"make way for"
Synonyms
- 28noun
the condition of things generally
"that's the way it is"
"I felt the same way"
- 29adverb
to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
"way over budget"
"way off base"
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