FAIRWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairway mean? 

• FAIRWAY (noun)
  The noun FAIRWAY has 3 senses:

1. 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 coastal waters

3. a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement

  Familiarity information: FAIRWAY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIRWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("fairway" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Meronyms (parts of "fairway"):

apron ((golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green)

Holonyms ("fairway" is a part of...):

golf course; links course (course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("fairway" is a kind of...):

itinerary; path; route (an established line of travel or access)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("fairway" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

 Context examples 

By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the HISPANIOLA right in the fairway, hardly to be missed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)