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areaway en · NOUN

Etymology

From area + way.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) An outdoor passage offering access to a basement.
   • At the basement door, which as in all these houses led out into the areaway below the front stoop, Krupong said, “Is there a toilet down here?” 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 11, in The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, page 307:
   • “I have three rooms here, and the back one opens into a kind of areaway from which I get into an abandoned storeroom, or I guess it’s an attic. […]” 1922, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in The Day of the Beast, New York: Harper, page 116:

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