ON THE WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on the way mean? 

• ON THE WAY (adverb)
  The adverb ON THE WAY has 1 sense:

1. on a route to some place

  Familiarity information: ON THE WAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON THE WAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a route to some place

Synonyms:

en route; on the way

Context example:

we saw him on the way to California

 Context examples 

More money is on the way to you, and that’s always a good thing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Arthur and Quincey came home with me, and we tried to cheer each other on the way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the way they met the fox.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For example, the cancer is seen in Reunion, but this was where European travellers would stop off on the way to India.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)

It is a huge and comparatively cool red supergiant star in the late stages of its life, on the way to becoming a supernova.

(Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere, ESO)

On the way, the route would allow the one-ton rover to capture images of the potential water sites from miles away and see if any are the seasonally changing type.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

Air passes through it on the way to your throat as you breathe.

(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

"How did you like it?" she asked him one night, on the way home from the opera.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the way to town, hanging around the saloon at the cross-roads, were three dogs that made a practice of rushing out upon him when he went by.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“My shaft has passed through it, camarade, and I trow the one which goes through is more to be feared than that which bides on the way.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)