DOORWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doorway mean? 

• DOORWAY (noun)
  The noun DOORWAY has 1 sense:

1. the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close

  Familiarity information: DOORWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOORWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

door; doorway; room access; threshold

Context example:

he stuck his head in the doorway

Hypernyms ("doorway" is a kind of...):

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))

Meronyms (parts of "doorway"):

case; casing (the enclosing frame around a door or window opening)

door (a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle)

doorcase; doorframe (the frame that supports a door)

doorsill; doorstep; threshold (the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doorway"):

exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)

Holonyms ("doorway" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

 Context examples 

He pulled on his cap, lurched desperately through the doorway, and was gone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fortunately, however, I took no steps, for looking up I saw that the older man was standing in the doorway with his eyes fixed upon me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had found a wonderful spot, a sort of natural hollow in a rock, with an entrance like a doorway between two boulders.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Those two men might still be crouching in the doorway, but I could no longer see them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When these people drew near the house where Dorothy was standing in the doorway, they paused and whispered among themselves, as if afraid to come farther.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A man-at-arms on either side of the doorway were the sole protectors of the royal dwelling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not go past the doorway, however, for undue preference gives rise to jealousy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same moment, the fire was once more opened from the woods, and a rifle ball sang through the doorway and knocked the doctor's musket into bits.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The woman came out, but I had hid myself in a doorway.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked at the doorway and saw nothing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)