way
Pronunciation: /weɪ/
The English word “way” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- Distance in general
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
- A state or condition
- Possibility (usually in the phrases ‘any way’ and ‘no way’).
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- 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.
- Speed, progress, momentum.
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.
interjection
verb
- To travel.
adverb
Etymology
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg…
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