doorway

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈdɔːweɪ//
United States//ˈdɔɹweɪ//
//ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ//
//ˈdoəweɪ//

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

noun

1
The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
I stood by the doorway to watch her go.
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.
Somewhere in the city / There's someone for you / Maybe in some doorway / You know love begins there too
2
figurativeAn opening or passage in general.
Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent.
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].

Etymology

From door + way.

Forms

plural: doorways

doorman · A person who holds open the door at the entryway (entrance)…doors · Opening time doorstep · An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually…

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

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