doorway

noun

door·​way ˈdȯr-ˌwā How to pronounce doorway (audio)
1
: the opening that a door closes
especially : an entrance into a building or room
2

Examples of doorway in a Sentence

Please don't block the doorway. She stepped through the doorway. He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in. Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
Recent Examples on the Web Place it over the front doorway or twist it around the porch rail. Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2024 Physically, all that separates Noori Pocha and Noori Chicken is one narrow doorway, but the characteristics that set the two apart are vast. Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024 On July 11, 2002, John Cornelius McGhee, known to everyone as J.C., was shot in the head in the doorway of his home in Belmont County, Ohio, near the West Virginia border. Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024 During the hearing, Abdulkareem stood behind bars in a doorway just off the courtroom. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024 After arriving at a dock, my bag was spirited away by a bellhop as another guided me through a tiny calle to the enormous arched doorway of the new Nolinski Venezia, the first foray of the French EVOK hotel group outside of its native country. Zoe Dubno, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024 Or a customer can request direct delivery to the doorway in as soon as an hour. Walter Loeb, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024 So the shot that Scorsese had designed was going in through the doorway and then the porch, going into the house and finding the family, finding Mollie and the kids and the nanny maybe in the living room. Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024 Yet this is still significant because these deployments are the doorway to large-scale manufacturing. Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1666, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of doorway was in 1666

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Cite this Entry

“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

doorway

noun
door·​way -ˌwā How to pronounce doorway (audio)
1
: the opening or passage that a door closes
2
: a means of reaching or gaining something
the doorway to success

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