way – English noun declension

English noun forms of way

Noun: way
Singularway
Pluralways

Sample Sentences

  • Do you know the way to the airport?  Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.  It's a long way from here.
  • Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
  • We lied our way through the debriefing.
  • I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.
  • The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance [1688 November 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 5 November 1688]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:]
  • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • "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]
  • Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks. [2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:]
  • We got into the cinema through the back way.
  • Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
  • He's finally seen the error of his ways.
  • You're going about it the wrong way.  He's known for his quirky ways.  I don't like the way she looks at me.
  • “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.” [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • […]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past. [1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:]
  • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. [2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):]
  • [2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:]
  • When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
  • There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
  • My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
  • 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)
  • Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so much way upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
  • 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, published 2003, page 343:]
  • In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
  • That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Way to ruin the moment, guys.
  • Jimmy leaned forward holding his ear, the personification of naïveté, looking as young as a baby with his oh-so-innocent face. “Oh, way to get us busted, Jimmy,” Curt hissed under his breath. [2001, Joshua Nedelman, The Garden of Eastern, page 36:]
  • Oh, way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister. [2009, Linda Winfree, Fall in Me, page 165:]
  • "Oh, way to care about how I feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone. [2012, Nancy Manther, A Charmed Life:]
  • By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time. [1912, Fredrick A. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World, page 36:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *wegaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *weg
5. Old English weġ
6. Middle English wey
7. English way
8. From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”). See: Dutch Nouns 'weg', Danish Nouns 'vej', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'veg', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'veg', Swedish Nouns 'väg', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "way"

Latin Nouns via, English Nouns wag, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns veg, German Nouns Weg, Old Norse Nouns vegr, Swedish Nouns väg, Danish Nouns vej, Portuguese Nouns viatura.