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say it: way
way is a noun and adverb meaning "how something is done or how it happens". It carries 13 recorded senses.
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
“a means of control”
“an example is the best agency of instruction”
“the true way to success”
a course of conduct
“the path of virtue”
“we went our separate ways”
“our paths in life led us apart”
“genius usually follows a revolutionary path”
any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
“he said he was looking for the way out”
space for movement
“room to pass”
“make way for”
“hardly enough elbow room to turn around”
the property of distance in general
“it's a long way to Moscow”
“he went a long ways”
colloquialism
a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
“they didn't have much in the way of clothing”
to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
“way over budget”
“way off base”
“the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on”
colloquialism
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 way 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.