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Definition of Make way
1. Verb. Get out of the way. "Make way for the President's motorcade"
Definition of Make way
1. Verb. To make progress. ¹
2. Verb. (nautical of a vessel) To progress through the water Bowditch. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) To give place or step aside. ¹
4. Interjection. (nautical) an instruction to get out of the way of someone else, usually because they are carrying something and need a clear pathway. Compare with gangway. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Way
Literary usage of Make way
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1907)
"MAKE "WAY FOR LIBERTY. James Montgomery (ft. 1771, d. 1854) was born in Irvine,
Ayrshire, Scotland. His father, a Moravian preacher, sent him to a Moravian ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"I removed it to a distance, as if to make way to my own : and down I sat, abruptly
I believe ; what I had heard all in my head. But this was not enough to ..."
3. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"I shall gradually make way and worry along. London does not satisfy all my
longings, but enfin it is an exciting, hard-working life here, and the Chief and ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"England, for the remaining fifteen years of the reign of make way Cnut, becomes
a blank. We now hear only of the King's wars abroad, of his acts of piety at ..."
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