doorway
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɔːweɪ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈdoəweɪ/
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Noun[edit]
doorway (plural doorways)
- The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
- 1950 February, “Rolling Stock for London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
- 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.
- (figuratively) An opening or passage in general.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIII, page 66:
- 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].
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
passage of a door
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