way

way ► NOUN 1) a method, style, or manner of doing something. 2) the typical manner in which someone behaves or in which something happens. 3) a road, track, path, or street. 4) a route or means taken in order to reach, enter, or leave a place. 5) the route along which someone or something is travelling or would travel if unobstructed. 6) a specified direction. 7) the distance in space or time between two points. 8) informal a particular area or locality. 9) a particular aspect or respect. 10) a specified condition or state: the family was in a poor way. 11) (ways) parts into which something divides or is divided. 12) forward motion or momentum of a ship or boat through water.

► ADVERB informal ▪ at or to a considerable distance or extent.

● by the way — Cf. ↑by the way

● by way of — Cf. ↑by way of

● come one's way — Cf. ↑come one's way

● get (or have) one's (own) way — Cf. ↑have one's way

● give way — Cf. ↑give way

● go one's own way — Cf. ↑go one's own way

● go one's way — Cf. ↑go one's way

● have a way with — Cf. ↑have a way with

● have one's way with — Cf. ↑have one's way with

● in a way (or in some ways or in one way) — Cf. ↑in some way

● lead the way — Cf. ↑lead the way

● one way and another (or one way or the other) — Cf. ↑one way or the other

● on the (or its) way — Cf. ↑on the way

● on the (or one's) way out — Cf. ↑on the way out

● the other way round (or around; Brit. also about) — Cf. ↑the other way round

● out of the way — Cf. ↑out of the way

● ways and means — Cf. ↑ways and means

ORIGIN Old English.