ways
noun/weɪz/
1
US, Figuratively, Informal, Sometimes A distance.
Usually preceded by a
- a little ways out
- We walked a ways from my house to the mall.
2 more examples
- 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.”1912 December 20, “Lone Pine”, in Banner County News, volume XX, number 51, Harrisburg, Neb.: Banner County News Publishing Co, →OCLC, page [8], column 4:
- “We still have a ways to go with patterns.” “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, page 41