partway

[pahrt-wey, -wey]

adverb

1. at or to a part of the way ways or distance.

   Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.

2. in some degree or part partly; partially.

   hopes that were only partway realized.

partway

/ ˈpɑːtˌweɪ /

adverb

1. some of the way; partly

   I stopped reading partway through the chapter

Word History and Origins

Origin of partway¹

First recorded in 1855–60; part + way ¹

Example Sentences

Tom walked partway, then got back on his bike and powered uphill through the last 500 or so yards.

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“Partway down the tree there’s an area that’s burning a cavity into the side. ... That is the area that is now still hot.”

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George Psaradakis, partway through his bus route in central London on a summer's morning, was happily thinking about the city's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics.

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“The concert before that one, I’d taken off my shoes partway through,” she recalls.

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We're only partway through that process.

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