Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Via

Via (vī"ȧ or vē"ȧ) , noun

[L. See Way.]

A road or way.
Collocations (2)
Via Lactea (Astronomy) , the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1.
Via media (Theology) , the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.

Via , preposition

[Latin, ablative of via way. See Way.]

By the way of; as, to send a letter via Queenstown to London.