Meanings
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1
noun
golf: the closely mown strip between the tee and the putting green
Her drive landed in the center of the fairway.
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2
noun
a navigable channel or customary course for vessels through shallow or restricted water
The pilot kept the ship inside the marked fairway.
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3
noun
a clear, unobstructed route or passage
The workers left a broad fairway through the crowded studio.
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Etymology
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.