Waystage

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.

    "Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways."

Example

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"Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways."

Etymology

From way + stage.

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