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way
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /we?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.
Alternative forms
- waye, waie (both obsolete)
Noun
way (plural ways)
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance
- "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
- "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A state or condition
- When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
- To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
- (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Hyponyms
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:way
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
way
- (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
- Synonym: yes way
Verb
way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)
- (obsolete) To travel.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
Etymology 2
Apheresis of away.
Alternative forms
- 'way, ’way (dated)
Adverb
way (not comparable)
- (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than Emma.
- 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
- I'm way tired.
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
- 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,
- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- (informal) Far.
Synonyms
- (much): far, much, loads
- (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
- way too
- way too many
- way too much
Translations
Etymology 3
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.
Noun
way (plural ways)
- The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- double-u
Anagrams
- Yaw, wya, yaw
Bobot
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water
References
- "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Highland Popoluca
Noun
way
- hair
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115
Lampung Api
Etymology
From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Ojibwe
Particle
way
- exclamation
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc
Tz'utujil
Noun
way
- tortilla
Synonyms
- away
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realm
English
Etymology
From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *r?g?limen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of r?gimen with r?g?lis is usually cited.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: r?lm, IPA(key): /??lm/
- Rhymes: -?lm
Noun
realm (plural realms)
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
- 2006, Christian Neef, "Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine, November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm […]
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- (computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
- (formal or law) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
- And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
- (fantasy, role-playing games) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.
- (virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
Synonyms
- (a territory or state): country, land, kingdom
- (a sphere of activity or influence): field, province
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Almer, Lamer, Lemar, Lerma, Maler, lamer, maerl, maler, marle, meral
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