Meanings
- pluralplural of way
- USfigurativelyinformalsometimesusually preceded by aA distance.
a little ways out
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Stuck in traffic... and still a good ways to go.
We walked a ways from my house to the mall.
Now, we have no particular objection to this Santa Claus business, but will say what we have said before, that it is entirely overdone and a long ways from being proper in the so-called “christian America.”
1912 December 20, “Lone Pine”, in Banner County News, volume XX, number 51, Harrisburg, Neb.: Banner County News Publishing Co, →OCLC, page [8], column 4“We still have a ways to go with patterns.” “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, page 41
Synonyms & antonyms
nounstructure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
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