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via
/ˈvaɪə/
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What does via mean?
noun
- A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
- A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
- An electrical connection which connects two or more layers on a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit.
More meanings (4)
preposition
- By way of; passing through.
- By (means of); using.
proper noun
- A surname.
interjection
- (obsolete) Away! Be off!
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvaɪə/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Another with his finger and his thumb Cried “Via, we will do ’t, come what will come.”
By the way, you might like to hear that European birds regularly migrate via the northern islands to Greenland.
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Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a handsome apartment in the Via Sistina.
At one lecture two Japanese gentlemen were induced to talk to one another in their own language, via the telephone.
It was a furious race back to the Hut via Aladdin's Cave with a gusty, seventy-five-mile wind in the rear.