The Collaborative Dictionary

-ways \-ways\ A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

ways

1 the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways" [syn: way]

2 structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired [syn: shipway, slipway] adv : n is between 2 and infinity; "They split the loot four ways" [syn: n-ways]

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. Plural of way
2. The timbers along which a boat is launched. (Webster's)
3. A distance.
   • 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416533249, page 41,

     […] “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”

     “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.

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