ways

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English

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Noun

ways (uncountable)

1. Plural form of way
2. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
3. (informal) A distance.
   • 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416533249, page 41,

     […] “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”

     “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.

References

• ways in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: forms · complete · access · #950: ways · grave · serious · possession

Anagrams

• sway
• yaws