fairway

Noun

Meaning

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

diamond course alley green channel path passage runway aisle apron golfer passageway seaway bowling green gangway
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Antonyms

headland room blockade

Hypernyms

site route path parcel itinerary tract

Phrases with the word

fairway wood

Examples

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. Lee Trevino

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. Bill Paxton

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them. Johnny Miller

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come. Yani Tseng

I take a wolf's rib and whittle it sharp at both ends and coil it up and freeze it in blubber and place it out on the fairway of the bears. Galway Kinnell

Close letter words and terms

Fairview fairwater fairwater plane fairway crested wheat grass fairway wood fairweather