preposition

via

VIE-uh/ˈvaɪə/

By way of a particular route or means.

The route reaches the mountain via a small village.

A simple route diagram from a small home icon to mountain icon passes through a village icon midway, clear by-way-of route with one continuous path and no letters or numbers.

Etymology

Latin via meant a road or way; its ablative form expressed “by way of.” The English preposition retains that route image, whether the passage is through a place or through a particular means.

In context

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then being extended to Stansted Airport in 1992. The route had initially run via Abridge and Theydon Bois to Epping

The London Bus that Terminates in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!

More examples

Send the documents via email.
We reached the trail via the east entrance.
She heard the news via a colleague.

Forms

via

Similar words

through: Can mean passing inside rather than using a route or intermediary.
by: By can indicate a means without describing an intermediate route.