Definition of way

"way" in the noun sense

1. manner, mode, style, way, fashion

how something is done or how it happens

"her dignified manner"

"his rapid manner of talking"

"their nomadic mode of existence"

"in the characteristic New York style"

"a lonely way of life"

"in an abrasive fashion"

2. means, agency, way

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"

3. direction, way

a line leading to a place or point

"he looked the other direction"

"didn't know the way home"

4. way

the condition of things generally

"that's the way it is"

"I felt the same way"

5. way, path, way of life

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"

6. way

any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another

"he said he was looking for the way out"

7. way

a journey or passage

"they are on the way"

8. room, way, elbow room

space for movement

"room to pass"

"make way for"

"hardly enough elbow room to turn around"

9. way

the property of distance in general

"it's a long way to Moscow"

"he went a long ways"

10. way

doing as one pleases or chooses

"if I had my way"

11. way

a general category of things used in the expression `in the way of'

"they didn't have much in the way of clothing"

12. way

a portion of something divided into shares

"they split the loot three ways"

"way" in the adverb sense

1. way, right smart

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"

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Quotations for way

Good land, evil way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Princes have no way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every man has his way. [ Ter ]

Give way to your betters. [ Proverb ]

The iron way, the railway. [ French ]

Love will find out the way. [ Percy's Reliques ]

Better ask than lose your way. [ Italian Proverb ]

A wilful man must have his way. [ Proverb ]

Every one has his own way of it. [ Horace ]

That is the way to beggar's bush. [ Proverb ]

The life of a man is a winter way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beggars never are out of their way. [ Proverb ]

Difficulties give way to diligence. [ Proverb ]

By different steps but the same way.

The way to gain a friend is to be one. [ Michelet ]

With thee conversing I forget the way. [ Gay ]

Content to follow when we lead the way. [ Homer ]

Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. [ Proverb ]

Rogues are always found out in some way.

The way of the cross is the way of light. [ Motto ]

Genius points the way; talent pursues it. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

A middle way or course; any middle course. [ Motto ]

An old dog can't alter his way of barking. [ Proverb ]

The only way to have a friend is to he one. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Living upon trust is the way to pay double. [ Proverb ]

Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. [ Goldsmith ]

Love and pease-porridge will make their way. [ Proverb ]

He will not give the way even to a blind man. [ Proverb ]

He that follows Nature is never out of his way. [ Proverb ]

Fame points the course, and glory leads the way. [ Pye ]

The furthest way about, is the nearest way home. [ Proverb ]

Not to hear conscience is the way to silence it. [ Proverb ]

Frightening of a bird is not the way to catch it. [ Proverb ]

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. [ Madame de Maintenon ]

He tells me my way, and does not know it himself. [ Proverb ]

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. [ Bovee ]

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. [ Bacon ]

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. [ Proverb ]

He goes not out of his way that goes to a good inn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way. [ Proverb ]

And mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. [ Byron ]

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. [ Lavater ]

He that goes the contrary way must go it over twice. [ Proverb ]

There is no short cut of a way without some ill way. [ Proverb ]

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. [ Proverb ]

Make haste to an ill way, that you may get out of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God. [ J. M. Barrie ]

The best way of revenge is not to imitate the injury. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape. [ Proverb ]

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way. [ Bible ]

Grief that gives way to verses is not very lamentable. [ Proverb ]

It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

We can do more good by being good than in any other way. [ Rowland Hill ]

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. [ Philarète Chasles ]

A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The only way to know and to serve God, is to be like him. [ Proverb ]

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs. [ Montaigne ]

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not. [ George Eliot ]

Not to go forward in the way of virtue is to go backwards. [ Proverb ]

You should not live one way in private, another in public. [ Syrus ]

The English have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves. [ Sully ]

None should expect to prosper who go out of the way of duty. [ Aughey ]

Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. [ Milton ]

Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. [ Bible ]

One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]

The best way to see divine light, is to put out your own candle. [ Proverb ]

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is but one way to heaven for the learned and the unlearned. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Go on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. [ Virgil ]

The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that way! [ Eugene Sue ]

The only way to be sure of not losing a child, is never to have any. [ Proverb ]

He gains wisdom in a happy way who gains it by another's experience. [ Plautus ]

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation. [ Sterne ]

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. [ Sir Richard Cecil ]

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. [ Goldsmith ]

The best way to keep good acts in memory, is to refresh them with new. [ Cato ]

We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. [ Chapin ]

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. [ Chamfort ]

He that goes a great way for a wife is either cheated, or means to cheat. [ Proverb ]

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. [ Rev. N. Howe ]

In love, the only way to resist temptation is to sometimes succumb to it. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. [ Demosthenes ]

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. [ Addison ]

To endeavor to forget any one is the certain way to think of nothing else. [ La Bruyere ]

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the way of danger. [ Rowland Hill ]

He is well onward in the way of wisdom who can bear reproof, and mend by it. [ Proverb ]

A Burston horse, and a Cambridge master of arts will give the way to nobody. [ Proverb ]

The only way to please God is to follow the good inclinations of our nature. [ Alfred Mercier ]

Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. [ Confucius ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness. [ Bible ]

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease. [ Steele ]

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]

The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, they all fast in their way. [ Proverb ]

way in Scrabble®

The word way is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters way:

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way in Words With Friends™

The word way is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters way:

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The 48 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In way

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Words within the letters of way

2 letter words in way (2 words)

3 letter words in way (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence way

Word Growth involving way

Shorter words in way

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Longer words containing way

airway airways fairways

airway airways stairways

airway fairway fairways

airway stairway stairways

aisleway aisleways

alleyway alleyways

anyway anyways

archway archways

away aways breakaways

away aways caraways

away aways castaways

away aways cutaways

away aways fadeaways

away aways fallaways

away aways flyaways

away aways foldaways

away aways getaways

away aways giveaways

away aways hideaways

away aways layaways

away aways lockaways

away aways runaways

away aways seaways

away aways soakaways

away aways straightaways

away aways takeaways

away aways tearaways

away aways throwaways

away aways towaways stowaways

away aways walkaways

away aways washaways

away breakaway breakaways

away caraway caraways

away castaway castaways

away cutaway cutaways

away fadeaway fadeaways

away fallaway fallaways

away faraway

away flyaway flyaways

away foldaway foldaways

away getaway getaways

away giveaway giveaways

away hideaway hideaways

away layaway layaways

away lockaway lockaways

away runaway runaways

away seaway seaways

away soakaway soakaways

away straightaway straightaways

away takeaway takeaways

away tearaway tearaways

away throwaway throwaways

away towaway stowaway stowaways

away towaway towaways stowaways

away walkaway walkaways

away washaway washaways

bedway bedways

beltway beltways

breezeway breezeways

bridleway

byway byways

cableway cableways

carriageway carriageways

causeway causeways

channelway channelways

companionway companionways

cruiseway cruiseways

cycleway cycleways

doorway doorways

drangway drangways

driveway driveways

edgeway edgeways

entranceway entranceways

entryway entryways

escapeway escapeways

feedway feedways

flatway flatways

floodway floodways

flyway flyways

freeway freeways

freeway nonfreeway

gangway gangways

gateway gatewaying

gateway gateways

halfway

hallway hallways

hatchway hatchways

headway headways

highway highwayman

highway highwaymen

highway highways superhighways

highway superhighway superhighways

jetway jetways

keyway keyways

laneway laneways

leeway leeways

midway midways

milkyway

motorway motorways

multiway

noway noways

oneway

parkway parkways

partway

passageway passageways

pathway pathways subpathways

pathway subpathway subpathways

raceway

railway railwayless

railway railwayman

railway railwaymen

railway railways

ringway ringways

riverway riverways

roadway broadway

roadway roadways

ropeway ropeways

runway runways

shipway shipways

sideway sideways

skidway skidways

slipway slipways

sluiceway sluiceways

someway someways

speedway speedways

spillway spillways

sternway sternways

straightway

subway subways

sunway

sway busway

sway crossway crossways

sway expressway expressways

sway oversway overswayed

sway oversway overswaying

sway oversway oversways

sway swayable

sway swayback swaybacked

sway swayback swaybacks

sway swayed overswayed

sway swayed unswayed

sway swayer swayers

sway swaying overswaying

sway sways crossways

sway sways expressways

sway sways oversways

taxiway taxiways

threeway

throughway throughways

thruway thruways

tollway tollways

trackway trackways

trafficway

trainway trainways

tramway tramwayman

tramway tramwaymen

tramway tramways

tunnelway

twoway

underway

walkway walkways

waterway waterways

wayback swayback swaybacked

wayback swayback swaybacks

waybill waybills

waybird waybirds

wayboard wayboards

waybook waybooks

waybread waybreads

wayfare wayfared

wayfare wayfarer wayfarers

wayfare wayfares

wayfaring wayfarings

wayhouse wayhouses

waylaid

waylay waylayer waylayers

waylay waylaying

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waymarked

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waymarks

wayment waymented

wayment waymenting

wayment wayments

wayout

waypoint waypoints

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ways airways stairways

ways aisleways

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ways aways caraways

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ways driveways

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ways floodways

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ways frontways

ways gangways

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ways hatchways

ways headways

ways highways superhighways

ways jetways

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ways noways

ways parkways

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ways railways

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