ways
/weɪz/
ways is the plural of way.
Meaning of way
Noun
way (plural ways)
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- We got into the cinema through the back way.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
- Distance in general
- It's a long way from here.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- He's finally seen the error of his ways.
- A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
Noun
ways
- A distance.
- a little ways out
- Stuck in traffic... and still a good ways to go.
Phrases with ways
- M ways
- in ways
- no ways
- ways in
- ways out
- Five Ways
- folk ways
- hard ways
- part ways
- green ways
- parts ways
- river ways
78 more phrasesFewer phrases
- third ways
- ways to go
- middle ways
- parted ways
- sacred ways
- speech ways
- spirit ways
- covered ways
- go both ways
- parting ways
- reverse ways
- ways of life
- winning ways
- Blessing Ways
- cut both ways
- go one's ways
- right of ways
- steerage ways
- cuts both ways
- goes both ways
- gone both ways
- look both ways
- permanent ways
- ways and means
- went both ways
- goes one's ways
- going both ways
- gone one's ways
- mend one's ways
- swing both ways
- swung both ways
- went one's ways
- going one's ways
- had it both ways
- has it both ways
- long ways around
- mends one's ways
- swings both ways
- ways of thinking
- change one's ways
- cutting both ways
- have it both ways
- mended one's ways
- set in one's ways
- ways of the world
- changed one's ways
- changes one's ways
- mending one's ways
- six ways to Sunday
- swinging both ways
- ten ways to Sunday
- changing one's ways
- having it both ways
- nine ways to Sunday
- parting of the ways
- six ways for Sunday
- stuck in one's ways
- no two ways about it
- partings of the ways
- six ways from Sunday
- six ways till Sunday
- ten ways from Sunday
- let me count the ways
- let us count the ways
- go their separate ways
- other days, other ways
- goes their separate ways
- gone their separate ways
- went their separate ways
- going their separate ways
- saw the error of one's ways
- see the error of one's ways
- God works in mysterious ways
- seen the error of one's ways
- sees the error of one's ways
- seeing the error of one's ways
- the Lord works in mysterious ways
- there are many ways to skin a cat
Words that rhyme with ways
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
Questions about ways
- What does ways mean?
- Ways means a distance.
- What is ways the plural of?
- Ways is the plural of way.
- What part of speech is ways?
- Ways is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ways?
- Ways is pronounced /weɪz/.
Words near ways in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ways (page history and authors); way (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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