fareway
/ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
Example Sentences
- "From Troy there's a fareway by sea direct Across to the glorious ancient Athens; […]"
- "He spoke of his several forefathers' experience at expanding the Far Fleets, which rendered safe all fareways running between the Attican Peninsula and all southerly depots that had been mentioned."
- "The others parted their ships asunder, and made a fareway between the ships."
Etymology
From Middle English farewaye, fairway, fare-waye, from Old English færweġ (“a cartroad”), from Proto-West Germanic *faraweg, *faruweg (“fareway”), equivalent to fare (“travel”) + way. Cognate with West Frisian farwei (“waterway”), Dutch vaarweg (“waterway”), Middle Low German vārwech, vaerwech (“fareway”), German Fahrweg (“fareway”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: farewaye, færweġ, *faraweg
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɛɹˌweɪ/
- British English: /ˈfɛəweɪ/