way
- adverb
- /weɪ/
- Informal
- This round's gonna be the hardest one yet, because we went way further than we've ever gone before.
And that's the whole Pacific, from Peru all the way to China to Japan.
- And that's the whole Pacific, from Peru all the way to China to Japan.
- This is where everyone gets pretty much all the way blacked out.
- I definitely was favoring the big side the whole way through, as you can probably tell.
- She's standing on the right leg all the way hip out.
- OK, so they they kept going and all the way down because the first.
Examples
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And Zanny had seen to it that they were way ahead in every subject.
Fiction book (1993) -
"You're getting way ahead of me, my friend," the bald FBI man said.
Fiction book (2000) -
The police could not catch him, he was way too fast.
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I play it way more than you.
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Yeah, we go way back together.
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Sam: Hey, your next class is way on the other side of school.
Fiction book (2001) -
First off, you need to understand that I go way back in this business.
Fiction book (1996) -
I only paid $8,500 for that thing way back when.
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They've kept alive all those old songs that go way back.
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I felt nervous the whole way through the presentation.
Synonyms
Completely from the start to the finish
Completely from the beginning to the end
For the whole time, from the beginning to the end
For the whole time from the start to the finish
From the beginning to the end of something
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To learn something through mistakes and problems instead of taking an easier path
- Informal
Find out by going through a difficult or painful experience instead of being warned
Compounds
A group of stars that contains our solar system and looks like a band of light in the night sky
A large group of stars that contains the solar system and looks like a faint milky band in the sky
- Specialized
Point in the sky showing the direction the Sun and solar system move among the stars
- Slur
A way of behaving that shows you are very gentle and easily upset, often used to insult men
- Specialized
The time a light signal takes to travel in one direction from Earth to a planet like Mars
- Specialized
A device that lets you turn a light on or off from two different places
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Way meaning 'completely' or 'all the way' comes from the idea of the whole distance or course. So when you say someone is 'way ahead' or stayed 'way through', it means they went the whole distance or did it to the end.