way

See also: Way

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) wei, (deprecated template usage) wai, (deprecated template usage) weighe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) weġ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic Template:recons, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:recons. Cognate with West Frisian (deprecated template usage) wei, Low German (deprecated template usage) Weg, Dutch (deprecated template usage) weg, German (deprecated template usage) Weg, Danish (deprecated template usage) vej, Swedish (deprecated template usage) väg, Latin (deprecated template usage) vehō, (deprecated template usage) via, Albanian (deprecated template usage) udhë.

Alternative forms

• waye (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: wā, , Template:X-SAMPA
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

   Do you know the way to the airport?

   Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.

   It's a long way from here.

2. A means to enter or exit into a place.

   We got in the cinema through the back way.

3. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

   You're going about it the wrong way.

   He's known for his quirky ways.

   I don't like the way she looks at me.
4. A roughly-defined geographical area.

   If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.

5. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

   There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.

6. Template:paganism 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.
7. Template:nautical Speed, progress, momentum.
   • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 343:

     Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.

8. A degree, an amount, a sense.

   In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.

9. (deprecated template usage) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.

Quotations

• (path or direction): "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]

"It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It`s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]

• (a tradition within Heathenry): To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:way

Derived terms

Terms derived from way (noun)

• by way of
• by the way
• change one's ways
• come one's way
• either way
• every which way
• give way
• go all the way
• go out of one's way
• have it both ways
• in a way
• in the way
• in the way of

• have a way with
• have one's way
• have one's wicked way
• know one's way around
• lose one's way
• no way
• no way to treat a lady
• on the way
• one way or another
• right of way
• runway
• slipway
• taxiway

• the way things are
• the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
• way in
• way of all flesh
• Way of the Cross
• way of the world / ways of the world
• way of life
• way off
• way out
• waybill
• way to go

Translations

wide path

• Albanian: rrugë (sq)
• Arabic: طريق m (Tariiq)
• Armenian: ուղի (uġi), ճանապարհ (čanaparh)
• Bashkir: Template:tø
• Basque: bide
• Breton: hent (br) m
• Catalan: via Template:f, camí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 道 (dào)

• Czech: cesta (cs) f
• Danish: vej (da) c
• Dutch: weg (nl)
• Esperanto: vojo
• Faroese: vegur m
• Finnish: tie (fi)
• French: voie (fr) f, chemin (fr) m
• Galician: vía f
• German: Weg (de) m
• Greek: δρόμος (el) (drómos)
• Guaraní: tape
• Hawaiian: ala
• Hebrew: דרך (he) f (derekh)
• Hindi: रास्ता m (rāstā)
• Hungarian: út (hu)
• Icelandic: vegur (is) m
• Ido: voyo (io)
• Indonesian: jalan (id)
• Interlingua: cammino, via
• Italian: via (it) f
• Japanese: 道 (ja) (みち, michi)
• Kazakh: жол (jol)
• Korean: 길 (ko) (gil)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: Template:ku-Arab

• Latin: via (la) f
• Latvian: ceļš (lv) m
• Malay: jalan (ms)
• Maori: ara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vei (no) m

  Nynorsk: veg m

• Old English: ƿeg m
• Old Norse: Template:tø
• Old Portuguese: Template:tø
• Pashto: لار (ps) f (lār)
• Persian: راه (fa) (râh)
• Polish: droga (pl) f
• Portuguese: caminho (pt) m, via (pt) f
• Romanian: cale Template:f, drum Template:n
• Russian: путь (ru) m (put’), дорога (ru) f (doróga)
• Scottish Gaelic: slighe f
• Serbo-Croatian: put m
• Slovene: pot (sl)
• Spanish: camino (es) m, vía (es) f
• Swahili: mamna (sw)
• Swedish: väg (sv) c
• Telugu: మార్గము (te) (mārgamu) (maargamu), దారి (te) (dāri) (daari)
• Turkish: yol (tr)
• Urdu: راستہ m (rāstā)
• Uyghur: يول (yol)
• Welsh: ffordd (cy) f
• West Frisian: wei c
• ǃXóõ: ʻáu

method

• Arabic: طريقة (ar) f (Tariiqa)
• Armenian: եղանակ (eġanak), կերպ (kerp), ճանապարհ (čanaparh)
• Bashkir: Template:tø
• Catalan: manera Template:f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方法 (fāngfǎ), 辦法／办法 (bànfǎ), 办法 (bànfǎ)

• Czech: způsob (cs) m
• Danish: måde c, facon c
• Dutch: manier (nl)
• Finnish: keino (fi), konsti (fi)
• French: manière (fr) f, façon (fr) f

  Old French: Template:tø

• German: Weise (de) f, Art (de) f, Methode (de) f
• Haitian Creole: Template:tø
• Hebrew: דרך (he) f (derekh), שיטה (he) f (shita)
• Hindi: तरह f (tarah)
• Hungarian: mód (hu)
• Interlingua: maniera, modo
• Italian: maniera (it) f
• Japanese: 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō)
• Korean: 방법 (ko) (bangbeop) (方法 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: modus (la) m, ratio (la) f, genus (la) n
• Latvian: veids m
• Norwegian: måte (no)
• Pashto: لار (ps) f (lār)
• Persian: راه (fa) (râh), روش (fa) (raveš)
• Polish: sposób (pl)
• Portuguese: maneira (pt) f, modo (pt) m, jeito (pt) m
• Romanian: fel
• Russian: способ (ru) m (spósob), путь (ru) m (put’), метод (ru) m (métod)
• Scots: wey
• Scottish Gaelic: dòigh f, modh m or f
• Slovak: spôsob m
• Spanish: manera (es) f, modo (es) m, forma (es) f
• Swahili: mamna (sw)
• Swedish: sätt (sv) n, vis (sv) c
• Telugu: పద్ధతి (te) (paddhati) (paddhati)
• Turkish: yol (tr)
• Urdu: طرح f (tarah)

means

• Bashkir: Template:tø
• Catalan: mitjà
• Hebrew: אמצעי m (emtsa'i)
• Interlingua: medio
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: meio (pt) m
• Spanish: medios m
• Swahili: mamna (sw)

Adverb

way (not comparable)

1. Much.

   I'm way too tired to do that.

   I'm a way better singer than she.

   • 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,

     It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.

2. Template:slang very.

   I'm way tired

   String theory is way cool, except for the math.

   • 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,

     With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?

3. far

   I used to live way over there.

   The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.

Synonyms

• (much): far, much, loads
• (very): so, very

Translations

much — see much (adverb)

very

• Dutch: heel, zeer (way too: veel te)
• French: très (fr)
• German: sehr (de)
• Interlingua: multo, assatis
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: Template:ku-Arab

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: muito (pt), bastante (pt), assaz (pt)
• Russian: очень (ru) (óčen')
• Spanish: muy (es)
• Telugu: చాలా (chaalaa)

Interjection

way

1. (deprecated template usage) It is true.

Verb

way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)

1. Template:obsolete To travel.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge [...].

Statistics

• Template:rank

Etymology 2

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other velar letters such as kay and gay.

Pronunciation

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

Noun

way (plural ways)

1. The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• double-u, the name of the Latin letter for this sound

Anagrams

• yaw

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Lampung Api

way

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Lampungic, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi Template:recons, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Template:recons.

Noun

way

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

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Tz'utujil

Noun

way

1. tortilla

Synonyms

• away