fairway

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   golf: the closely mown strip between the tee and the putting green

   Her drive landed in the center of the fairway.

2. 2
   noun

   a navigable channel or customary course for vessels through shallow or restricted water

   The pilot kept the ship inside the marked fairway.

3. 3
   noun

   a clear, unobstructed route or passage

   The workers left a broad fairway through the crowded studio.

A compound of fair + way, with fair meaning clear, open, or favorable. The nautical sense named a safe navigable course; golf later applied the word to the clear strip leading toward the green, and broader figurative uses denote an unobstructed passage.

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