airway

Other forms of airway

plural

airways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about airway

What does airway mean?

airway means "a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airway?

airway has 2 syllables: air-way. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹˌweɪ/.

What is another word for airway?

Close synonyms include air passage, air duct, air lane, flight path, skyway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is airway a common word?

airway is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with airway?

55 words rhyme with airway. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.