English words starting with way

Meanings of Way:

noun

A method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.

Usage examples:

I hated their way of cooking potatoes

adverb

At or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis).

Usage examples:

His understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target

suffix

Equivalent to -ways.

How something is done or how it happens

Meanings of Way of life:

phrase

A course of conduct

idiom

The manner in which a person or society usually lives

Usage examples:

Sleeping in hotels three or four nights a week is not an ideal way of life.

Meanings of Way-down:

idiom

In the place where someone lives

Usage examples:

Down our way people don't take much interest in politics.

Meanings of Way-in:

preposition

Inside a container, place, or area, or surrounded or closed off ...

Meanings of Way-of-thinking:

idiom

In a particular person's opinion

Usage examples:

To my way of thinking, the plan should never have been approved.

Meanings of Way-out:

adjective

Unusual, especially because very modern in style

Usage examples:

A lot of experimental theatre is too way-out for me.

Meanings of Way-up:

phrase

In the correct position

Usage examples:

The lid has to go on the right way around or it won't fit., keep the bottle the right way up., make…

Meanings of Wayang:

noun

(in indonesia and malaysia) a theatrical performance employing puppets or human dancers.

Usage examples:

One of the significant breakthroughs poedijono made is his use of english in his wayang (puppet sho…

Meanings of Wayback:

noun

The brand name for software that allows you to search internet archives (= old documents, websites, etc.)

Usage examples:

Unfortunately, all of the links involved are now not only dead, but they are not even in the intern…

Meanings of Waybill:

noun

A list of passengers or goods being carried on a vehicle.

Usage examples:

An air waybill

Meanings of Wayfare:

noun

Wayfaring, travelling.

verb

To travel, especially on foot.

Meanings of Wayfarer:

noun

A person who travels on foot.

Usage examples:

After travel, the wayfarer's home is not the same anymore.

Meanings of Wayfarers:

noun

A person who travels on foot.

Usage examples:

After travel, the wayfarer's home is not the same anymore.

Meanings of Wayfaring:

adjective

(of a person) travelling on foot.

Usage examples:

A wayfaring stranger

noun

The action of travelling by foot.

Usage examples:

We had, as a tribe, sat in a circle and told the harrowing stories of our wayfaring members and i t…

Meanings of Waygate:

noun

A path or passage providing exit or escape; specifically (a) an opening or channel for the drainage of surplus water; (b) an outlet for the sale of goods or produce.

Meanings of Waygoing:

noun

The action or fact of going away or leaving; departure, especially on a journey, or from a place of residence or position of employment.

Meanings of Waygoings:

noun

The action or fact of going away or leaving; departure, especially on a journey, or from a place of residence or position of employment.

Meanings of Waygoose:

noun

Wayzgoose.

Meanings of Waylaid:

verb

Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.

Usage examples:

He waylaid me on the stairs

Past simple and past participle of waylay

Meanings of Waylay:

verb

Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.

Usage examples:

He waylaid me on the stairs

Meanings of Waylaying:

verb

Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.

Usage examples:

He waylaid me on the stairs

Meanings of Waylays:

verb

Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.

Usage examples:

He waylaid me on the stairs

Meanings of Wayleave:

noun

A right of way granted by a landowner, generally in exchange for payment and typically for purposes such as the erection of telegraph wires or laying of pipes.

Usage examples:

Companies must have way leaves for work they want to carry out on private land

Meanings of Wayman:

noun

A highwayman. also neutrally: a traveller by road.

Meanings of Waymark:

noun

A sign forming one of a series used to mark out a route, especially a footpath or bridle path.

Usage examples:

Just before a sign: ‘private no entry’, take a path on the left, by a red waymarker.

verb

Identify (a route) with a waymark.

Usage examples:

The trail is waymarked with blue arrows