on the way

1. 1.

   on a route to some place

   “help is on the way”

   “we saw him on the way to California”

   Synonymsen route

Questions about on the way

What does on the way mean?

on the way means "on a route to some place".

What is another word for on the way?

Close synonyms include en route. 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 on the way a common word?

on the way is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.