ways

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of way
2. (US, figuratively, informal, sometimes)A distance.

   “a little ways out”

   “We walked a ways from my house to the mall.”

   “Now, we have no particular objection to this Santa Claus business, but will say what we have said before, that it is entirely overdone and a long ways from being proper in the so-called “christian America.””

   ““We still have a ways to go with patterns.” “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.”