the whole way

1. 1.

   to the goal

   “she climbed the mountain all the way”

   Synonymsall the way

Questions about the whole way

What does the whole way mean?

the whole way means "to the goal".

What is another word for the whole way?

Close synonyms include all the way. 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 the whole way a common word?

the whole 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.