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fareway

UK/ˈfɛəweɪ/US/ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/

fareway noun: a road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.

Noun

fareway (plural fareways)

  1. A road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
    • From Troy there's a fareway by sea direct
      Across to the glorious ancient Athens; […]1907, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem, page 172
    • He spoke of his several forefathers' experience at expanding the Far Fleets, which rendered safe all fareways running between the Attican Peninsula and all southerly depots that had been mentioned.2011, House Ascendant, page 362

Forms of fareway

pluralfareways

Origin of fareway

From Middle English farewaye, fairway, fare-waye, from Old English færweġ (“a cartroad”), from Proto-West Germanic *faraweg, *faruweg (“fareway”), equivalent to fare (“travel”) + way. Cognate with West Frisian farwei (“waterway”), Dutch vaarweg (“waterway”), Middle Low German vārwech, vaerwech (“fareway”), German Fahrweg (“fareway”).

Words that rhyme with fareway

Questions about fareway

What does fareway mean?
Fareway means a road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
What part of speech is fareway?
Fareway is a noun.
How do you pronounce fareway?
Fareway is pronounced /ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of fareway?
The plural of fareway is fareways.

Words near fareway in the dictionary

  1. Farese
  2. Fareses
  3. Faresmaathodaa
  4. farest
  5. fareth
  6. fareway
  7. fareways
  8. farewell
  9. Farewell and Chorley
  10. farewell parties
  11. farewell party

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