ANYWAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anyways mean? 

• ANYWAYS (adverb)
  The adverb ANYWAYS has 1 sense:

1. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

  Familiarity information: ANYWAYS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANYWAYS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

Synonyms:

anyhow; anyway; anyways; at any rate; in any case; in any event

Context example:

but at any rate he got a knighthood for it

 Context examples 

Why, you see we wasn't aware, sir, returned the waiter, still apologetically, as Mr. Copperfield was anyways particular.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I wouldn't so much as give it another thought, said Peggotty, cheerily if my Davy was anyways against it—not if I had been asked in church thirty times three times over, and was wearing out the ring in my pocket.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night, anyways, for an hour!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)