Pathway n.
A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for pathway; he lists it under way.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.