Definitions for headway

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headway head·way

Spelling: [hed-wey]

IPA: /ˈhɛdˌweɪ/

Headway is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in headway (aadehwy).

Definitions for headway

noun

1. forward movement; progress in a forward direction:
2. progress in general:
3. rate of progress:
4. the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.
5. headroom (def 2).

Idioms

1. make headway, to proceed forward; advance; progress.

Origin of headway

First recorded in 1700-10; (a)head + way¹

Examples for headway

With the people of the country of her adoption, whether Jews or Moors, she made no headway.

Even Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has made some headway here.

He was performing the task during a royal visit to headway, a charity that helps people with brain injuries.

For a time he had seemed to make no headway against his hill-born appetite.

McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway.

Over on Iverak the Serbians had succeeded in making some headway.

The headway of the skiff was slow, but my efforts were not silent.

Even as U.S./NATO forces make some headway here and there, little comes in behind them to solidify gains.

We've both been struggling with unemployment and underemployment, and we're just now starting to make some headway.

Would we—make any—headway, sir, with the schooner's—light machinery?