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doorway

UK/ˈdɔːweɪ//ˈdɔɹweɪ/

doorway noun: the passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.

doorway: the passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room
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Noun

doorway (plural doorways)

  1. (countable) The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
    • I stood by the doorway to watch her go.
    • A re-arrangement of the seating in relation to doorway positions gives an even distribution of seated passengers, no change has been made in the number or size of the doorways.1950 February, “Rolling Stock for London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 88
  2. (countable, figuratively) An opening or passage in general.
    • Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent.
    • How fares it with the happy dead?
      For here the man is more and more;
      ⁠But he forgets the days before
      God shut the doorways of his head [i.e. the sutures of the skull].1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66

doorway meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Pashto

doorway in Tamil

doorway, entrance
வாய்தல் vāytal
doorway, gate
தடம் taṭam

doorway in Telugu

passage of a door
గుమ్మం gummaṁ

doorway in Pashto

doorway
دروازه darwāzə

Examples of doorway in a sentence

  • If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
  • He signed me that I should follow him through the doorway.
  • I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.

All 40 example sentences with doorway

Forms of doorway

pluraldoorways

Plural of doorway: doorways

Origin of doorway

From door + way.

Words formed from doorway

Phrases with doorway

Questions about doorway

What does doorway mean?
Doorway means the passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
What is doorway in Tamil?
Doorway in Tamil is வாய்தல் (vāytal), தடம் (taṭam). See Doorway meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is doorway?
Doorway is a noun.
How do you pronounce doorway?
Doorway is pronounced /ˈdɔɹweɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of doorway?
The plural of doorway is doorways.

Words near doorway in the dictionary

  1. doorstopper
  2. doorstoppers
  3. doorstops
  4. doorward
  5. doorwards
  6. doorway
  7. doorway page
  8. doorway pages
  9. doorwayed
  10. doorways
  11. doorweed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doorway (page history and authors); தடம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); دروازه (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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