WAY OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does way out mean? 

• WAY OUT (noun)
  The noun WAY OUT has 1 sense:

1. an opening that permits escape or release

  Familiarity information: WAY OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAY OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opening that permits escape or release

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exit; issue; outlet; way out

Context example:

the canyon had only one issue

Hypernyms ("way out" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "way out"):

outfall (the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water)

 Context examples 

I could never fight my way out as Wolf Larsen had done.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She fought her way out again.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the way out of the difficulty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I shall still be able to find my way out,” said he, and felt about, found the way into the room, and slept there by his fire.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What we ought to be doing to-day, to-morrow, and all the time, said he, is finding some way out of the trap into which we have fallen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bessie invited him to walk into the breakfast-room, and led the way out.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I woke up in a strange room, as it seemed to me, and made my way out into the street in a sort of dazed way when you were absent.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"We shall see," said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our way out of the churchyard, he carrying the sleeping child.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)