partway

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French partbor.

Latin partembor.

Old English part

Middle English part

English part

Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *wegaz

Proto-West Germanic *weg

Old English weġ

Middle English wey

English way

English partway

From part + way.

Adverb

partway (not comparable)

1. To some extent.
   • 2022 September 7, Jim Steer, “CrossCountry: the heart of the nation”, in RAIL, number 965, page 30:

     The timetable for May-December 2022 reveals a service partway back to its pre-COVID level.

2. In part; part of the way; some of the way.
   • 2020 September 9, Brian Lowry, “Daisy Ridley reawakens the ‘Star Wars’ debate over Rey’s lineage”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 April 2026:

     Daisy Ridley has reawakened the debate over “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s” biggest reveal, saying that the character of Rey’s lineage wasn’t clear to her even partway through filming the final chapter of the trilogy.

   • 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Wait goes on to unblock congested Castlefield Corridor”, in RAIL, number 985, page 51:

     NR is promising ambitious plans for Oxford Road station partway along the crowded [Castlefield] corridor.

See also

• halfway

References

• “partway”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “partway”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.