Definitions for airway

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airway air·way

Spelling: [air-wey]

IPA: /ˈɛərˌweɪ/

Airway is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in airway (aairwy).

Definitions for airway

noun

1. an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, radio beams, etc.
2. a passageway by which air passes from the nose or mouth to the air sacs of the lungs.
3. Medicine/Medical. a tubelike device used to maintain adequate, unobstructed respiration, as during general anesthesia.
4. any passage in a mine used for purposes of ventilation; an air course.
5. airways. the band of frequencies, taken collectively, used by radio broadcasting stations: airwaves. airline (def 1c).

Origin of airway

First recorded in 1905-10; air¹ + way¹

Examples for airway

It was landing almost directly beneath the airway they followed.

Here and there the airway was lofty enough to allow us to walk with bent heads and rounded shoulders.

We cant get out this way, said Tom; well have to go up through the airway.

They went back into the airway, and were met by a similar impenetrable mass.

A matter which is easier, and for which straightforward ruling may be framed, concerns the navigation of craft upon the airway.

For them the international situation is much the same as for the London-Cairo airway.

Snoring is a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, when your airway collapses or becomes blocked during sleep.

And he had picked up the line of beacons that marks the airway from Newark to Boston.

A little stream ran down through the airway, from which the pail had been repeatedly filled.

Then, with a glance at the sleeping boy, Come ye up the airway a bit.