ways — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A distance.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Figurative
   • Informal
   • sometimes

   Examples

   a little ways out

   Stuck in traffic... and still a good ways to go.

   More examples (3)

   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.”

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

Noun

1. structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

   Synonyms

   shipwayslipway

   Broader terms

   structureconstruction