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waystage

waystage noun: a stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.

Noun

waystage (plural waystages)

  1. A stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.
    • Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways.1997, Gavriel Salomon, Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations

Forms of waystage

pluralwaystages

Origin of waystage

From way + stage.

Questions about waystage

What does waystage mean?
Waystage means a stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.
What part of speech is waystage?
Waystage is a noun.
What is the plural of waystage?
The plural of waystage is waystages.

Words near waystage in the dictionary

  1. wayside pulpit
  2. wayside pulpits
  3. waysider
  4. waysiders
  5. waysides
  6. waystage
  7. waystages
  8. waystation
  9. waystations
  10. Wayt
  11. wayte

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