alway

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɔːl.weɪ/

Definition of alway

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, not-comparable)Alternative form of always.
    “And lo I am with you allwaye even untyll the ende off the worlde.”
    “Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.”
    “Tired flower! upon my breast, I would wear thee alway”

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Etymology

From Middle English alwey, from Old English ealneġ, ealne weġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to al- (“all”) + way. Cognate with Scots alwayis (“always”). More at all, way.

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