point the way

1. 1.

   indicate the right path or direction

   “The sign pointed the way to London”

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Questions about point the way

What does point the way mean?

point the way means "indicate the right path or direction".

Is point the way a common word?

point the way is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.