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on the way en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Coming; approaching.
    • Don't worry, Mr. President, help's on the way Your brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay 2020, Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul:
    • Spring is on the way.
    • Don't panic! Reinforcements are on the way.
  2. Heading to a certain place.
    • We are on our way to the train station.
  3. On the direct route that one intends to travel.
    • I can drop you at the station, as it is on my way home.
  4. On one's way.
  5. While travelling.
    • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
    • We gathered up what was left of the red deer after skinning and cleaning it, and set out upon our return journey toward the U-boat. On the way Olson, von Schoenvorts and I discussed the needs of our immediate future, and we were unanimous in placing foremost the necessity of a permanent camp on shore. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

Translations (64)

id sedang di jalan (coming) · mk на пат (coming) · ru на пути́ (coming) · pl po drodze (while travelling) · it in arrivo (coming) · sv på väg (heading to a certain place) · es en el camino/rumbo (while travelling) · nl op zijn weg (on the direct route) · ja 途中で (coming) · ta வழியில் (coming) · es en camino (el) (coming) · ar فِي الطَّرِيق (coming) · es rumbo (heading to a certain place) · af op pad (coming) · pl w drodze (coming) · cmn 途中 (coming) · fa در راه (coming) · sv under resans gång (while travelling) · da på vej (coming) · fr en cours de route (while travelling) · eo venonta (coming) · eo survoje (while travelling) · cmn 在路上 (coming) · nl onderweg (while travelling) · ta வழியில் (on the direct route) · fr en chemin (while travelling) · es rumbo (on the direct route) · sv på vägen (on the direct route) · ur راستے میں (while travelling) · es en rumbo (coming) · fi matkalla (while travelling) · es de camino (on the direct route) · sv på väg (coming) · fr en route (coming) · af op pad (while travelling) · fi tulossa (coming) · ta வழியில் (while travelling) · mk по пат (while travelling) · ru в доро́ге (coming) · fr chemin faisant (while travelling) · sh na putu (coming) · es en camino (el) (on the direct route) · pl po drodze (on the direct route) · pt a caminho (coming) · he בדרך (coming) · it strada facendo (while travelling) · ka ჩამოსვლა (coming) · nl onderweg (coming) · es en/de camino (heading to a certain place) · it sulla strada per (on the direct route) · sh на путу (coming) · af onderweg (coming) · hu útba esik (on the direct route) · hu útközben (while travelling) · fi tiedossa (coming) · de auf dem Weg (coming) · la obiter (while travelling) · sv på vägen (while travelling) · hu úton (coming) · ru в пути́ (coming) · ca de camí (while travelling) · de unterwegs (while travelling) · ko 도중에 (coming) · de unterwegs (coming)