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ways

noun plural but singular in construction \ˈwāz\

: a distance

Full Definition of WAYS

:  way 6 <a long ways from home>
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Origin of WAYS

Middle English wayes, from genitive of 1way
First Known Use: 1580

Rhymes with WAYS

baize, blaze, braise, braze, chaise, craze, days, daze, faze, fraise, gaze, glaze, graze, Hays, haze, lase, laze, maize, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, praise, raise, raze, vase

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32 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. ways
  2. way
  3. -ways
  4. ways and means
  5. bilge ways
  6. ground ways
  7. launching ways
  8. next ways
  9. public works and ways system
  10. sliding ways
  11. standing ways
  12. covered way
  13. cut
  14. drove road
  15. eightfold way
  16. family way
  17. flower way
  18. law-way
  19. middle way
  20. monkey way
  21. parting
  22. permanent way
  23. private way
  24. public way
  25. purgative way
  26. right-of-way
  27. sun's way
  28. third way
  29. town way
  30. unitive way
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