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HALLWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hallway mean? 

HALLWAY (noun)
  The noun HALLWAY has 1 sense:

1. an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms openplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HALLWAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hall; hallway

Context example:

the elevators were at the end of the hall

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

corridor (an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it)

Meronyms (parts of "hallway"):

ceiling (the overhead upper surface of a covered space)

floor; flooring (the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure))

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)

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

concourse (a wide hallway in a building where people can walk)


 Context examples 


Martin decided not to enter immediately, and lingered in the hallways for a quarter of an hour.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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