Meanings
- idiomaticComing; approaching.
Spring is on the way.
2 more examples
Don't panic! Reinforcements are on the way.
Don't worry, Mr. President, help's on the way Your brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay
2020, Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul - Heading to a certain place.
We are on our way to the train station.
- While travelling.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC1 more example
We gathered up what was left of the red deer after skinning and cleaning it, and set out upon our return journey toward the U-boat. On the way Olson, von Schoenvorts and I discussed the needs of our immediate future, and we were unanimous in placing foremost the necessity of a permanent camp on shore.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbon a route to some place
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans op pad, onderweg
- op padcoming
- onderwegcoming
- op padwhile travelling
Arabic فِي الطَّرِيق
- فِي الطَّرِيق (fī ṭ-ṭarīq)coming
Catalan de camí
- de camíwhile travelling
Chinese Mandarin 在路上, 途中
- 在路上 (zài lùshàng)coming
- 途中 (túzhōng)coming
Danish på vej
- på vejcoming
Dutch onderweg, op zijn weg
- onderwegcoming
- op zijn wegon the direct route
- onderwegwhile travelling
Esperanto venonta, survoje
- venontacoming
- survojewhile travelling
Finnish tulossa, tiedossa
- tulossacoming
- tiedossacoming
- matkallawhile travelling
French en route, en chemin
- en routecoming
- en cheminwhile travelling
- chemin faisantwhile travelling
- en cours de routewhile travelling
German unterwegs, auf dem Weg
- unterwegscoming
- auf dem Wegcoming
- unterwegswhile travelling
Hebrew בדרך
- בדרךcoming
Hungarian úton, útba esik
- útoncoming
- útba esikon the direct route
- útközbenwhile travelling
Indonesian sedang di jalan
- sedang di jalancoming
Italian in arrivo, sulla strada per
- in arrivocoming
- sulla strada peron the direct route
- strada facendowhile travelling
Japanese 途中で
- 途中で (tochū de)coming
Korean 도중에
- 도중에 (dojung'e)coming
Latin obiter
- obiterwhile travelling
Persian در راه
- در راه (dar râh)coming
Polish w drodze, po drodze
- w drodzecoming
- po drodzeon the direct route
- po drodzewhile travelling
Portuguese a caminho
- a caminhocoming
Russian в пути́, на пути́
- в пути́ (v putí)coming
- на пути́ (na putí)coming
- в доро́ге (v doróge)coming
Spanish en camino (el), en rumbo
- en camino (el)coming
- en rumbocoming
- en/de caminoheading to a certain place
- rumboheading to a certain place
- de caminoon the direct route
- en camino (el)on the direct route
- rumboon the direct route
- en el camino/rumbowhile travelling
Swedish på väg, på väg
- på vägcoming
- på vägheading to a certain place
- på vägenon the direct route
- under resans gångwhile travelling
- på vägenwhile travelling
Tamil வழியில், வழியில்
- வழியில் (vaḻiyil)coming
- வழியில் (vaḻiyil)on the direct route
- வழியில் (vaḻiyil)while travelling
Urdu راستے میں
- راستے میں (rāste ma͠i)while travelling
Cite this entry
on the way. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20the%20way
“on the way.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20the%20way. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “on the way,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20the%20way.
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