doorway

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for doorway in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology

door +‎ way

Pronunciation

• (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

doorway (plural doorways)

1. The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.

Translations

passage of a door

• Bulgarian: вход (bg) m (vhod)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 門口, 门口 (mun⁴ hau²)

  Mandarin: 門口 (zh), 门口 (zh) (ménkǒu)

• Dutch: deurgat (nl) n, deuropening (nl) f
• Finnish: oviaukko (fi), ovensuu (fi)
• French: embrasure de la porte f
• German: Türöffnung f
• Greek: άνοιγμα πόρτας n (ánoigma pórtas)
• Irish: doras (ga) m
• Italian: uscio (it) m, via di accesso f
• Japanese: 戸口 (ja) (とぐち, toguchi)

• Korean: 출입구 (ko) (churipgu), 문간 (ko) (mun-gan)
• Macedonian: влез m (vlez)
• Navajo: chʼéʼétiin
• Norman: uss'sie
• Norwegian: døråpning m, f
• Polish: wejście (pl)
• Portuguese: vão da porta m, porta (pt) f
• Russian: дверно́й проём m (dvernój projóm)
• Spanish: entrada (es)
• Telugu: గుమ్మం (te) (gummaṃ)
• Walloon: poice (wa) m, tchapå (wa) m (entrance way)
• Welsh: drws (cy) m