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via

/ˈvaɪə/

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What does via mean?

noun

  1. A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
  2. A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
  3. An electrical connection which connects two or more layers on a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit.
More meanings (4)

preposition

  1. By way of; passing through.
  2. By (means of); using.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

interjection

  1. (obsolete) Away! Be off!

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈvaɪə/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈviə/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Another with his finger and his thumb Cried “Via, we will do ’t, come what will come.”
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
By the way, you might like to hear that European birds regularly migrate via the northern islands to Greenland.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739
More book examples (3)
Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a handsome apartment in the Via Sistina.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
At one lecture two Japanese gentlemen were induced to talk to one another in their own language, via the telephone.
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819
It was a furious race back to the Hut via Aladdin's Cave with a gusty, seventy-five-mile wind in the rear.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137