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Definition: Seaway |
SeawayNoun1. A lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seaway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Relatively narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SeawaySynonyms: sea lane (n), ship route (n), trade route (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seaway |
| English words defined with "seaway": Saint Lawrence Seaway, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence Seaway. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Seaway (1964) | |
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Economic History | Canada | The two countries also share in operation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. (references) |
Canada | The list of these corporations includes the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Canadian National Railway (freight), Via Rail (passenger service), Canada Post, and numerous others. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Seaway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Seaway" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Seaway Food Town, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "seaway": Saint Lawrence Seaway ♦ St. Lawrence Seaway. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "seaway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lëvizje e anijes përpara, det i hapur (high seas, main). (various references) | |
Arabic | طريق بحري (sea route). (various references) | |
Chinese | 海上航". (various references) | |
Danish | sund (healthy, well), stræde (alley, lane). (various references) | |
Dutch | zeeweg (neck, sound, strait), vaarroute naar zee (neck, sound, strait). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسیرکشتی , راه دریاءی (Lane), دریاراه . (various references) | |
Finnish | salmi (sound, strait). (various references) | |
French | voie de navigation maritime (sea lane), route maritime (sea route), détroit. (various references) | |
German | Seeweg (sea route). (various references) | |
Greek | πορθμός (strait), θαλάσσια οδόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajó haladása, viharos tenger (heavy sea, strong sea), hajózható vízi út, hajó helye a tengeren. (various references) | |
Italian | stretto (channel, clenched, close, exact, fast, firm, narrow, near, packed, precise, sharp, sound, strait, straits, strict, tight). (various references) | |
Korean | 해로. (various references) | |
Manx | reamys marrey (leeway, open sea, sea room), raad marrey (bund, coast road, marine drive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eawaysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estreito (close, cramped, gat, gullet, hidebound, narrow, one-track, parochial, poky, strait, straits, thin, tight). (various references) | |
Russian | фарватер (clearway, clear-way, fairway). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | morski put. (various references) | |
Spanish | canal marítimo (canal, channel, inter-oceanic canal, maritime canal, neck, sealevel canal, ship canal, shipcanal, sound, strait). (various references) | |
Swedish | sund (channel, healthy, neck, salubrious, sane, sound, straight, Strait, straits, stright, well, wholesome). (various references) | |
Turkish | geminin hızı, derin suyolu, deniz yolu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фарватер (channel, clearway, fairway, pass, waterway), бурхливе море. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seaway": seaways. (additional references) | |
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"Seaway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sajwaj, Samawah, satway, seagway, Seaya, segaway, Seisay, Seiwa, Selway, seqway, Shekawat, Skagway, Suwaya. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seaway" (pronounced sē"wā') |
| 3 | -ē" w ā' | freeway, leeway. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: asea, away, awes, ayes, easy, eyas, sway, waes, ways, wyes, yaws, yeas, yews. | |
-3 letters: aas, awa, awe, aye, ays, sae, saw, say, sea, sew, wae, was, way, wye, yaw, yea, yes, yew. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, as, aw, ay, es, we, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: seaways. | |
+2 letters: aisleway, areaways, awayness, causeway, gateways, getaways, headways, laneways, paleways, raceways, swayable, wasteway. | |
+3 letters: aisleways, alleyways, cableways, causeways, claywares, fadeaways, giveaways, hereaways, hideaways, leastways, tearaways, wasteways, waterways, wayfarers, waylayers, welladays, wellaways. | |
+4 letters: awaynesses, breakaways, breaksaway, causewayed, graywackes, jayhawkers, jaywalkers, passageway, swaybacked, twayblades. | |
+5 letters: causewaying, passageways, steerageway, waywardness. | |
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