What does ways mean?
Ways means plural of way.
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/weɪz/ · noun
plural of way.
a little ways out
We walked a ways from my house to the mall.
“We still have a ways to go with patterns.” “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
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.”
Use ways when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ways means plural of way.
Common synonyms include way, slipway, n-ways, shipway.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a little ways out
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