Meanings
plural doorways
- countableThe passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
I stood by the doorway to watch her go.
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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 88Somewhere in the city / There's someone for you / Maybe in some doorway / You know love begins there too
1977, Chic, “You Can Get By”, in Chic - countablefigurativelyAn opening or passage in general.
Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent.
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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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans deuropening
- deuropeningpassage of a door
Bulgarian вход
- вход (vhod)passage of a door
Chinese Cantonese 門口 /门口
- 門口 /门口 (mun⁴ hau²)passage of a door
Chinese Mandarin 門口 /门口
- 門口 /门口 (ménkǒu)passage of a door
Danish døråbning
- døråbningpassage of a door
Dutch deurgat, deuropening
- deurgatpassage of a door
- deuropeningpassage of a door
Esperanto pordejo
- pordejopassage of a door
Finnish oviaukko, ovensuu
- oviaukkopassage of a door
- ovensuupassage of a door
French embrasure de la porte
- embrasure de la portepassage of a door
German Türöffnung
- Türöffnungpassage of a door
Greek άνοιγμα πόρτας
- άνοιγμα πόρτας (ánoigma pórtas)passage of a door
Hungarian ajtónyílás
- ajtónyíláspassage of a door
Irish doras
- doraspassage of a door
Italian uscio, via di accesso
- usciopassage of a door
- via di accessopassage of a door
Japanese 戸口
- 戸口 (toguchi)passage of a door
Korean 출입구, 문간
- 출입구 (churipgu)passage of a door
- 문간 (mun'gan)passage of a door
Latin ostium, ianua
- ostiumpassage of a door
- ianuapassage of a door
Norwegian Bokmål døråpning
- døråpningpassage of a door
Polish wejście
- wejściepassage of a door
Portuguese vão da porta, porta
- vão da portapassage of a door
- portapassage of a door
Russian дверно́й проём
- дверно́й проём (dvernój projóm)passage of a door
Swedish dörröppning, dörr
- dörröppningpassage of a door
- dörrpassage of a door
Ukrainian дверни́й о́твір, дверни́й про́різ
- дверни́й о́твір (dvernýj ótvir)passage of a door
- дверни́й про́різ (dvernýj próriz)passage of a door
Welsh drws
- drwspassage of a door
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Cite this entry
doorway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorway
“doorway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorway. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doorway,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorway.
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