A pathway is a path which you can walk along or a route which you can take.
Richard was coming up the pathway.
...a pathway leading towards the nearby river.
2. countable noun
A pathway is a particular course of action or a way of achieving something.
Diplomacy will smooth your pathway to success. [+ to]
... the call to arms that opened the pathway to freedom for the Brazilian people.
pathway in British English
(ˈpɑːθˌweɪ)
noun
1. another word for path (sense 1), path (sense 2)
2.
a route to or way of access to; way of reaching or achieving something
3.
courses taken by a student to gain entry to a higher course or towards a final qualification
4. biochemistry
a chain of reactions associated with a particular metabolic process
pathway in American English
(ˈpæθˌweɪ)
noun
path1
COBUILD Collocations
pathway
neural pathway
Examples of 'pathway' in a sentence
pathway
He would find himself striving for victory using neural pathways he last used as a novice.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We also know the neural pathways that the brain itself uses to send signals to those parts.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The need for metabolic pathways becomes clear just by looking at what we eat.
Erdmann, Robert & Jones, Meirion Fats, Nutrition and Health (1991)
Walking along the pathway at the back of the beach is a real pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Particular evolutionary pathways seem to have been chosen more often than others.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
They set out on a new pathway in life rather than trying to restore the past.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But an ancestral elephant pathway is naturally used by smaller creatures.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She opened up the pathway to my new life.
Lindenfield, Gael 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman (1989)
He is striving for victory using neural pathways he last used as a novice.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Open questions are designed to open up and explore new pathways.
O'Connor, Joseph & Seymour, John Training with N.L.P. (1994)
But it is also a pathway to a new reality.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The outcome is a freeing of brain energy and neural pathways that allows for positive thoughts and reconciling behavior.
Christianity Today (2000)
The heart does not have its own nerve supply and so it uses the nerve pathways of neighbouring structures.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
But shouldn't fortysomething men already have forged their neural pathways?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
After all, our neural pathways are not set in stone.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They might have continued to exist for millions of years, gradually diversifying and refining their metabolic pathways.
Dyson, Freeman Infinite in All Directions (1989)
The graft persuades the cells of the scar to open up, making room for the new pathway.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The thing is that when you get used to thinking a certain way the neural pathways in your brain change, in a physical sense.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You're walking down neural pathways that are real, to all intents and purposes.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
No. Haven't you seen the pathways where they walk?
Tepper, Sheri S. A Plague of Angels (1993)
Can I use my old pathway?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Fat and the metabolic treadmill In common with all foods, fats are used in what are called metabolic pathways.
Erdmann, Robert & Jones, Meirion Fats, Nutrition and Health (1991)
Most work by interfering with metabolic pathways that are unique to bacteria - eg, penicillin weakens bacteria cell walls but has no effect on human tissue.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
pathway
British English: pathway NOUN
walkway A pathway is a path which you can walk along.
He was coming up the pathway.
American English: pathway
Brazilian Portuguese: caminho
Chinese: 路径
European Spanish: sendero
French: chemin
German: Weg
Italian: sentiero
Japanese: 小道
Korean: 길
European Portuguese: caminho
Latin American Spanish: sendero
British English: pathway NOUN
course of action A pathway is a particular course of action or a way of achieving something.
Diplomacy will smooth your pathway to success.
American English: pathway
Brazilian Portuguese: caminho
Chinese: 门路
European Spanish: camino
French: chemin
German: Weg
Italian: strada
Japanese: 路線
Korean: 경로
European Portuguese: caminho
Latin American Spanish: camino
Chinese translation of 'pathway'
pathway
(ˈpɑːθweɪ)
n(c)
(= path) 小路 (xiǎolù) (条(條), tiáo)
(fig, to success, good career etc) 途径(徑) (tújìng) (条(條), tiáo)