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say it: FER-way
fairway is a noun meaning "the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short". It is pronounced /ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/ — FER-way. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters
a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fairway come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.