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on one's way

on one's way prepositional phrase: leaving; going about one's business.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Leaving; going about one's business.
    • If we're done, I'll be on my way.
    • Well I'm on my way / I don't know where I'm going / I'm on my way / I'm taking my time but I don't know where1972, Paul Simon, “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon
  2. On the way.
  3. (obsolete) Pregnant.
    • Fellow Hector, she is gone; she is two moneths on her way.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Antonyms of on one's way

  • out of one's way

Forms of on one's way

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Questions about on one's way

What does on one's way mean?
On one's way means leaving; going about one's business.
What part of speech is on one's way?
On one's way is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on one's way in the dictionary

  1. on one's tod
  2. on one's todd
  3. on one's toes
  4. on one's uppers
  5. on one's watch
  6. on one's way
  7. on ones
  8. on opposite sides of the barricades
  9. on or about
  10. on order
  11. on pain of

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