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noun plural but singular in construction
Etymology: Middle English wayes, from genitive of 1way
Date: 1580
way 6 <a long ways from home>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
ways
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ways — ways; side·ways; bar·ways; bend sin·is·ter·ways; bend·ways; chev·ron·ways; cor·ner·ways; pale·ways; sal·tire·ways; slanch·ways; some·ways; … English syllables
Ways — Ways … Wikipédia en Français
WAYS — may stand for:* World Association of Young Scientists, formerly World Academy of Young Scientists * WAYS (AM), an AM radio station in Macon, Georgia * WAYS FM, an FM radio station in Macon, GeorgiaThe term ways is also an alternative name for… … Wikipedia
ways — I was standing out in the street a little ways, wrote the American novelist Tom Wolfe in his Bonfire of the Vanities (1987). This use of the plural ways, meaning ‘at some indeterminate distance (in time or place)’ is related to a use (with a… … Modern English usage
-ways — A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial s (see { wards}). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ways — a sloping structure down which a new ship is launched. → way ways parts into which something divides or is divided. → way … English new terms dictionary
ways — index approaches, conduct, deportment, means (opportunity), policy (plan of action), presence (pois … Law dictionary
ways — [ weız ] suffix in a particular direction: used with some nouns: sideways … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
-ways — ► SUFFIX ▪ forming adjectives and adverbs of direction or manner: lengthways … English terms dictionary
-ways — [wāz] [ME < way (see WAY) + adv. gen. s] suffix forming adverbs in a (specified) direction, position, or manner [sideways]: equivalent to WISE (sense 1) … English World dictionary
ways — [wāz] pl.n. [with sing. v.] Informal WAY (n. 10) … English World dictionary
