Definition of "ways"

ways

/weɪz/

noun
1. plural of way
noun
1. (informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.
  Quotations
  “We still have a ways to go with patterns.” / “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
  2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, page 41