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Definitions: Fairway |
FairwayNoun1. The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short. 2. The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters. 3. A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fairway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | The usual course of a vessel entering or leaving harbour. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fairway, Kansas."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Navigation | Voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fairway |
| English words defined with "fairway": apron ♦ divot, dogleg ♦ fairway crested wheat grass ♦ rough. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fairway": blue flag at starboard side of the wheel house ♦ GOLF-RANGE ATTENDANT, GREENSKEEPER II ♦ laborer, golf course. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fairway" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (fairway), Swedish (fairway). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Kings of the Fairway (1945) | |
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Ben Hogan | As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. |
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Business | The British design places obstacles in the fairway leading out of the tee, while the American places them along the side and allows the golfer to plan his or her approach. (references) | |
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| "Fairway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "Fairway" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.81% | 166 | 24,220 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Fairway, KS (city, FIPS 22700) |
Expression using "fairway": fairway crested wheat grass. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fairway | 163 |
fairway wood | 112 |
fairway ford | 76 |
fairway market | 50 |
golf fairway | 44 |
fairway supermarket | 41 |
fairway and green | 34 |
fairway villa | 27 |
fairway mortgage | 26 |
fairway chevrolet | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "fairway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrugë e lirë. (various references) | |
Arabic | ممر مائي (strait, thoroughfare, watercourse, waterway), ممر سالك, العرض الجزء الصالح للملا حة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свободен проход, талвег (midstream). (various references) | |
Czech | hrací pole. (various references) | |
Danish | sejlloeb. (various references) | |
Dutch | vaargeul. (various references) | |
Finnish | kulkuväylä (navigable waterway, passage, thoroughfare, traffic route). (various references) | |
French | passe. (various references) | |
German | fahrrinne (gut, shipping channel, waterway), Fahrwasser (navigable water). (various references) | |
Greek | δίαυλος ναυσιπλο@ας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבר פתוח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajózható átjáró. (various references) | |
Italian | zona navigabile, rotta di sicurezza, rotta d'entrata o di uscita. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fake, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェアウェー , フェアウェイ . (various references) | |
Manx | foain mynlagh, cassan shiaullee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skipsled. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airwayfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | passagem (access, admittance, aisle, alley, alleyway, carfare, clearance, Col, communication, corridor, end, fare, ferry, filling, gangway, gate, gatemoney, gateway, highroad crossing, inlet, iter, leakage, making a pass, making a run, motion, pass, passage, passageway, passing, pick, place, program run, programme run, run, shoot, shot, shute, smoothing, switch over, ticket, transit, transition, way, weft, woof, work clearance), justiça (att, justice, rectitude, right, righteousness, sword), entrada (adit, admittance, approach, deposit, directory entry, door, door-money, doorway, down payment, entrée, entrance, entry, gatemoney, gateway, hallway, hors d'oeuvres, incoming, ingress, inlet, input, input process, intake, introitus, jaw, lobby, mouth, opening, payment on account, portal, threshold). (various references) | |
Romanian | drum maritim, canal navigabil (waterway), şenal navigabil. (various references) | |
Russian | фарватер (clearway, clear-way, seaway). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plovni kanal, otvoren prostor (open). (various references) | |
Spanish | entrada o salida, canalizo (opening, passage), calle (curtilage, inter row, Lane, lift, line, path, pithead, road, space between rows, st., Street, surface, tack, way), acceso (access, accession, acess, approach, attack, entry, fit, making land, mine opening, outburst, paroxysm, radial, radial road, radial street, radial trunk road, spasm, working). (various references) | |
Swedish | farvatten (sea, waters), farled (channel, course, Lane, sea lane, waterway), fairway, segelled (Lane, pass). (various references) | |
Thai | ทางสนามกอล์ฟซึ่งอยู่ระหว่างจุ"ตั้งลูกกอล์ฟและหลุม. (various references) | |
Turkish | serbest geçit, çimenli yol, çim alan. (various references) | |
Ukranian | фарватер (channel, clearway, pass, seaway, waterway). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fairway": fairways. (additional references) | |
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"Fairway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Easiway, Fairuza, fairweigh, fayawan, Finway, fourway, Hairway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fairway" (pronounced fe"rwā') |
| 4 | -e" r w ā' | airway, stairway. |
| 3 | -r w ā' | doorway. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: airway. | |
-2 letters: fairy. | |
-3 letters: afar, airy, aria, away, awry, fair, fiar, fray, raia, raya, waif, wair, wary, wiry. | |
-4 letters: air, arf, awa, far, fay, fir, fry, raw, ray, ria, rif, rya, war, way, wry, yar, yaw. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, aw, ay, fa, if, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: fairways. | |
+2 letters: wayfaring. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 69 72 77 61 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .. .-. .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101001 01110010 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a i r w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0069 0072 0077 0061 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40677584896791 |
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