Via
['vaɪə] or [ˈvaɪə,ˈviə]
Definition
(n.) A road way.
(prep.) By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [L.] [Colloquial.] By way of.
Editor: Robert
Definition
interj. away! off! either in command or defiance.
n. a highway a road a route—via London=by way of London: a natural passage of the body.—n. Viam′eter an odometer.—adj. Viat′ic.—n.pl. Viat′icals military baggage.—Via dolorosa the Way of Calvary (see Station); Via lactea the Milky-Way or Galaxy; Via media the midway course or mean between popular Protestantism and Roman Catholicism which Newman almost down to 1845 succeeded in believing that the Anglican divines of the 17th century had taken up.—Prim?vi the first or main passages the alimentary canal the bowels; Secund?vi the lacteal or chyliferous vessels.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Go to the Via Manzoni and up that. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In detaching such a force, the brigade of the cavalry now en route from Washington via Rockville may be taken into account. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She and Gerald, being ready first, set off via London and Paris to Innsbruck, where they would meet Ursula and Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To Rio de Janeiro, the distance via Magellan is 8,609 miles; by the canal 7,885 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From San Francisco to Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and Magellan, is approximately 7,610 miles, which is shorter than the route through the canal, by which the distance is 8,941 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I went down the steps carefully and walked up the Via Manzoni. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Roman colonies were planted in the valley of the Po, and the great northward artery, the Via Flaminia, was begun. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a handsome apartment in the Via Sistina. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- General Foster, commanding Department of the South, also sent an expedition, via Broad River, to destroy the railroad between Charleston and Savannah. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You could eat early at the Gran Via and hurry back to the Florida. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To Para the distances via Magellan and via the canal are 10,852 and 5,642 miles, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The old way was to hire boys to set up the pins on the spots and return the ball via the return chute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From Syra they will easily go to England by the French packet, via Marseilles. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He did not want to eat at the Gran Via because the food was no good really and you had to get there on time or whatever there was of it would be gone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To Pernambuco, on the eastern promontory of South America, the distance via Magellan is 9,748 miles; via the canal 6,746 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus ended this, the enemy's last attempt to invade the North via the Shenandoah Valley. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Louis