ways

See also: -ways

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: weighs
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Noun

ways

1. plural of way

Noun

ways

1. (informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.

   a little ways out

   We walked a ways from my house to the mall.

   • 1912 December 20, “Lone Pine”, in Banner County News, volume XX, number 51, Harrisburg, Neb.: Banner County News Publishing Co, →OCLC, page [8], column 4:

     Now, we have no particular objection to this Santa Claus business, but will say what we have said before, that it is entirely overdone and a long ways from being proper in the so-called “christian America.”

   • 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41:

     “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”

     “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.

References

• “way”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ways”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Sway, Yaws, sway, yaws

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwajs/ [ˈwaɪ̯s]
• Rhymes: -ajs
• Syllabification: ways

Adjective

ways (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜌ᜔ᜐ᜔) (colloquial, uncommon)

1. alternative form of wais

Anagrams

• Syaw