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fairway

/ˈfɛəweɪ/US/ˈfɛɹweɪ/

fairway noun: the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.

Noun

fairway (plural fairways)

  1. The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
  2. Any tract of land free from obstacles.
  3. A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6)
  4. A navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.
    • By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the Hispaniola right in the fairway, hardly to be missed.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
    • Lights of ships moved in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

fairway meaning in Tamil

fairway in Tamil

உகந்த வழி

Examples of fairway in a sentence

  • Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
  • The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough.
  • The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green.

All 11 example sentences with fairway

Forms of fairway

pluralfairways

Plural of fairway: fairways

Origin of fairway

From fair + way.

Words formed from fairway

Phrases with fairway

Words that rhyme with fairway

Questions about fairway

What does fairway mean?
Fairway means the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
What is fairway in Tamil?
Fairway in Tamil is உகந்த வழி. See Fairway meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fairway?
Fairway is a noun.
How do you pronounce fairway?
Fairway is pronounced /ˈfɛɹweɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of fairway?
The plural of fairway is fairways.

Words near fairway in the dictionary

  1. Fairview
  2. fairwater
  3. fairwater plane
  4. fairwater planes
  5. fairwaters
  6. fairway
  7. fairway wood
  8. fairway woods
  9. fairways
  10. fairweather
  11. fairweather friend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairway (page history and authors); fairway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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