Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • preposition By way of.
  • preposition By means of.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A highway; a road; a way or passage.
  • noun In anatomy and medicine, a natural passage of the body.
  • Away! off! formerly a word of encouragement from commanders to their men, riders to their horses, etc., and also an expression of impatience, defiance, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A road or way.
  • noun (Astron.) the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1.
  • noun (Theol.) the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.
  • preposition By the way of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • preposition By way of; passing through.
  • preposition By (means of); using (a medium).
  • noun A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
  • noun electronics A small hole in a printed-circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin viā, ablative of via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin viā, ablative singular of via ("way, road").

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin via ("road"), of uncertain origin, plausibly cognate with vehere 'to conduct'.

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  • I see this word all the time and it's just fun to say..Just ask Samantha Puckett "i-Carly"

    September 20, 2010