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Definition of "seaway" [seaway]

  • A sea route. (noun)
  • An inland waterway for ocean shipping. (noun)
  • The headway of a ship. (noun)
  • A rough sea. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "seaway" in a sentence
  • ""Not an international strait, but a shipping route, something like the St. Lawrence seaway, which is carefully managed with sufficient infrastructure to ensure that ships can pass safely through to everyone's economic interest and at the same time have security threats dealt with and deterred.""
  • "Terry Johnson, administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., wants to see the seaway, which is too small for most oceangoing vessels now, rehabilitated and its infrastructure improved to accommodate container ships from Europe and Asia."
  • "I intend, however, to stick to my suggested title of Cross-roads, for it, I think; most adequately describes the point at which we stand at the end of the old road of Empire authority and at the moment of decision as to whether we shall take the Russian Communist road along which so much of Europe and Asia have already travelled, or the Atlantic road which we may call the seaway, the free way, the road of civilisation for civilisation, whatever you may think in Toronto has always risen to its greatest peaks among maritime peoples."
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