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- pronunciation:
- weI
- parts of speech:
- noun, adverb
- features:
- Homophone Note
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A way is a road or path that leads from one place to another.
Terrence and Reg both walk the same way to school, but they don't walk together.- synonyms:
- path, route
- similar words:
- approach, channel, course, highway, passage, passageway, road, track
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| definition 2: |
A way is a direction. If someone asks which way the park is, they want to know in which direction it is.
The park is that way. It's not far from here.Look this way and you'll see the parade coming.- synonyms:
- direction
- similar words:
- course
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| definition 3: |
When something is a short way from your house, it means that it is a short distance.
My grandparents live a long way from here, so they can't visit too often.- synonyms:
- distance
- similar words:
- drive, hop, space, trip, walk
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| definition 4: |
When you make your way to a place or toward a goal, you make some movement or progress toward that place or goal. If you are on your way to school, you are somewhere in the middle of going there.
It was snowing hard, so Mr. Taylor made his way carefully back to his house.Jade's piano teacher told her that she was on her way to becoming a very good pianist.- similar words:
- advance, progress
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| definition 5: |
A way is something that you can go through. A way lets you go in or out of something.
A movie theater has many ways for people to go out when the movie is over.- synonyms:
- passage
- similar words:
- access, approach, entrance, exit, gap, opening
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| definition 6: |
A way is how you do something. If you do something slowly, then slowly is the way you are doing it. If you talk quietly, then quietly is the way you are talking.
Babies always eat in a messy way because they are just learning how to eat.Jamal asked Eric to move over in a nice way, but Eric still wouldn't move.- synonyms:
- manner
- similar words:
- approach, fashion, method, mode, style, technique
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| definition 7: |
Your way of doing something is how you are able to do it or how you usually do it. It is your method. If you have a way to fix something, you have a plan and a set of things that you do to fix it.
When Mia has trouble with her computer, her father usually has a way to make it work.I like the way my mom cooks chicken, but I like the way my dad makes it too.- synonyms:
- manner, mode
- similar words:
- fashion, policy, practice, procedure, process, rule, style, system, technique
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| related words: |
avenue, behavior, direction, expression, habit, lane, means, pass, path, performance, trail, treat |
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| part of speech: |
adverb |
| definition: |
"Way" means "much" or "far." If it's way too cold to go outside, it's much too cold. If it's way too late to go to the park, then it's far too late to go there. If you sit way in the back of the theater, you sit far back in the theater.
I wanted some sneakers at the store, but my mom said they were way too expensive.I wanted to borrow my sister's jacket, but it was way too big for me.My sister is way taller than me.Suddenly, the wind took the kite way up into the sky.- synonyms:
- far, much
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The words way, weigh, and whey all sound alike but have different meanings.
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