noun
- manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- characteristic or habitual manner: Her way is to work quietly and never complain.
- a method, plan, or means for attaining a goal: to find a way to reduce costs.
- a respect or particular: The plan is defective in several ways.
- a direction or vicinity: Look this way. We’re having a drought out our way.
- passage or progress on a course: to make one’s way on foot; to lead the way.
- Often ways. distance: They’ve come a long way.
- a path or course leading from one place to another: What’s the shortest way to town?
- British.
- an old Roman or pre-Roman road: Icknield Way.
- a minor street in a town: He lives in Stepney Way.
- a road, route, passage, or channel (usually used in combination): highway; waterway; doorway.
- Law. a right of way.
- any line of passage or travel, used or available: to blaze a way through dense woods.
- space for passing or advancing: to clear a way through the crowd.
- Often ways. a habit or custom: The grandmother lived by the ways of the old country.
- course or mode of procedure that one chooses or wills: They had to do it my way.
- condition, as to health, prosperity, or the like: to be in a bad way.
- range or extent of experience or notice: the best device that ever came in my way.
- a course of life, action, or experience: The way of transgressors is hard.
- Informal. business: to be in the haberdashery way.
- Nautical.
- ways,two or more ground ways down which a hull slides in being launched.
- movement or passage through the water.
- Machinery. a longitudinal strip, as in a planer, guiding a moving part along a surface.