pathway
A footpath or other path or track.
Example
“go down the pathway”
Other meanings
A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
A course of action.
“the pathway to success”
Synonyms
- nerve pathway
- tract
- nerve tract
A kind of
- white matter
Kinds of pathway
- optic radiation
- peduncle
Related words
- biopathway
- eigenpathway
- endopathway
- immunopathway
- intrapathway
- multipathway
- neuropathway
- pathwayed
- subpathway
- superpathway
- mesolimbic pathway
- geniculostriate pathway
Word history
From Middle English "pathwei".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pathway” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.