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say it: TAK-see-way
taxiway is a noun meaning "a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport". It is pronounced /ˈtæksiweɪ/ — TAK-see-way. It carries one recorded sense.
a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport
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 taxiway 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.