Synonyms for way
weɪway

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1. way

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, channel, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track

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1. way

   Synonyms:
   form, fashion, practice, habit, method

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1. manner, mode, style, way, fashionnoun

   how something is done or how it happens

   "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"

   Synonyms:
   modal value, modality, fashion, manner, mode, vogue, panache, mood, path, elbow room, style, direction, agency, trend, expressive style, way of life, stylus, personal manner, means, elan, musical mode, flair, dash, room

2. means, agency, waynoun

   how a result is obtained or an end is achieved

   "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"

   Synonyms:
   direction, government agency, manner, delegacy, elbow room, substance, style, federal agency, agency, path, way of life, bureau, office, means, representation, fashion, authority, mode, room

3. direction, waynoun

   a line leading to a place or point

   "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"

   Synonyms:
   focal point, guidance, focus, management, manner, counselling, counsel, commission, direction, instruction, elbow room, focussing, room, agency, path, way of life, centering, counseling, charge, style, steering, means, fashion, mode, focusing

4. waynoun

   the condition of things generally

   "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

5. way, path, way of lifenoun

   a course of conduct

   "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, itinerary, course, fashion, route, track, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

6. waynoun

   any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another

   "he said he was looking for the way out"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

7. waynoun

   a journey or passage

   "they are on the way"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

8. room, way, elbow roomnoun

   space for movement

   "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

9. waynoun

   the property of distance in general

   "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"

   Synonyms:
   mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

10. waynoun

    doing as one pleases or chooses

    "if I had my way"

    Synonyms:
    mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

11. waynoun

    a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'

    "they didn't have much in the way of clothing"

    Synonyms:
    mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

12. wayadverb

    a portion of something divided into shares

    "they split the loot three ways"

    Synonyms:
    mode, manner, fashion, way of life, agency, means, elbow room, direction, room, style, path

13. way, right smartadverb

    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"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"

    Synonyms:
    right smart

Matched Categories

1. • Artifact
   • Category
   • Choice
   • Condition
   • Course
   • Distance
   • Journey
   • Path
   • Property
   • Spatial Relation

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1. enroute

   Submitted by anonymous on October 12, 2020  

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1. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   passage, march, advance, progression

2. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   road, path, route, course, track, TRAIL, street, highway, highroad, room for passing, opportunity to pass

3. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   method, mode, manner, fashion, plan, wise, sort, degree

4. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   space, distance

5. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   custom, usage, habit, habitude, practice, wont, second nature

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1. waynoun

   Synonyms:
   manner, method, mode, fashion, style, guise, custom, habitude, wont, practice, distance, interval, space, passage, transit, progression, advance, means, device, expedient, contrivance, direction, road, track, path, thoroughfare

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1. List of paraphrases for "way":

   manner, mode, path, road, means, form, method, fashion, route, average, course, mod, chemin, track, ways, medium, shape, approach, direction, so, pathway, cover, order, solution, journey, sense, style, forma, lid, courses, camino, title, plea, modality, case, modalities, via, weg, kind, extent, basis

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How to use way in a sentence?

1. John McEnroe:

   Everyone's different. You go from the extreme of Roger( Roger Federer) being able to pull it off to... Novak( Djokovic), who doesn't seem like himself yet and that's been the better part of almost a couple of years now, there is no way to know... It's a year. That's a long time.

2. Sergio Marchionne:

   The pitch is that there is a better to way to run this business, i'll wait, and we'll get it done.

3. Henri Barkey:

   Think of an Englishman, a Frenchman [ or ] a German who makes his way to Turkey, then makes his way to Syria, how does that happen ? Someone picks them up, has a safe house for them to stay in, smuggles them across the border. It’s not five or six guys ; it’s a very large infrastructure. This guy that comes from some town in England will have no way of getting across the border if it was n’t for that infrastructure.

4. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191:

   The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

5. Donald Trump:

   There have been very few complaints the way it is, people go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble.