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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

in the way of en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) In relation to; in connection with; with respect to.
    • Certainly their extracurricular talents in the way of sport have not gone unnoticed. 2011 September 2, Sonia van Gilder Cooke, “Harvard's a Bargain — If You're From the U.K.”, in Time:
    • Of what that involves in the way of doctrine I have no idea nor the time to inform myself. 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 13, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
    • He had seen Death many times, - met him in the way of trade, and got acquainted with him. 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 12, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
  2. (idiomatic) In or into a position of being likely to obtain, to attain, or to achieve.
    • I am in the way of knowing that one of you will not reach your destination, but I don’t know which will be the one to fall. I am in the way of knowing that the rest will be taken before this man Flagg, who is not a man at all but a supernatural being. [...] It’s not my place to argue with you, or convince, but only to put you in the way of understanding God’s plan for you. 1990, Stephen King, chapter 59, in The Stand:
    • But it would certainly put her in the way of a grand marriage. 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
    • The King sought out the farmer who had been branded and sold as a slave . . . and put him in the way of a comfortable livelihood. 1881, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 34, in The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages, Montreal, Que.: Dawson Brothers, →OCLC:
  3. (idiomatic) Similar to; as an instance of; as a kind of.
    • "My dear young friend, rely upon my doing my little all in your absence, by keeping the fact before the mind of Joseph.—Joseph!" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration. 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIX, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 328:
    • I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. 1906, O. Henry, The Gift Of The Magi:
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in the way, of.

Relateds

in someone's way · by way of · in the way

Translations (15)

cmn 對於 /对于 (in relation to) · fr par rapport à (in relation to) · fi suhteen (in relation to) · fr en mesure de (in a position of being likely to obtain) · fi auttaa (in a position of being likely to obtain) · tr -ce (in relation to) · tr -çe (in relation to) · tr -ca (in relation to) · fr du genre de (similar to) · cmn 關於 /关于 (in relation to) · cmn 讓……能夠 /让……能够 (in a position of being likely to obtain) · fi tapainen (similar to) · cmn 類似於 /类似于 (similar to) · tr -ça (in relation to) · fi liittyen (in relation to)