Dictionary

doorway en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈdoəweɪ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
• /ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
• /ˈdɔːweɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈdɔɹweɪ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From door + way.

Meanings

1. (countable) The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
   • I stood by the doorway to watch her go.
   • Somewhere 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:
   • 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 88:
2. (countable, figuratively) An 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]. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66:

Forms

Deriveds

doorway state · doorwayed · darken someone's doorway · doorway page

Meronyms

awning · door panel · threshold · door · doormat · door frame · sidelites · transom

Translations (49)

nrf uss'sie (passage of a door) · de Türöffnung (passage of a door) · nn døropning (passage of a door) · nl deuropening (passage of a door) · mk влез (passage of a door) · bg вход (passage of a door) · te గుమ్మం (passage of a door) · af deuropening (passage of a door) · ang wāgþȳrel (passage of a door) · fr embrasure de la porte (passage of a door) · gl entrada (passage of a door) · sv dörr (passage of a door) · ceb pulta (passage of a door) · la ostium (passage of a door) · fi oviaukko (passage of a door) · yue 門口 /门口 (passage of a door) · mhr аҥ (passage of a door) · cmn 門口 /门口 (passage of a door) · wa poice (passage of a door) · da døråbning (passage of a door) · ru дверно́й проём (passage of a door) · ko 문간 (passage of a door) · ja 戸口 (passage of a door) · pt porta (passage of a door) · lg omulyango (passage of a door) · ko 출입구 (passage of a door) · yao mlango class 3 (passage of a door) · uk дверни́й про́різ (passage of a door) · chr ᎦᎶᎯᏍᏗ (passage of a door) · ga doras (passage of a door) · it uscio (passage of a door) · eo pordejo (passage of a door) · it via di accesso (passage of a door) · wa tchapå (passage of a door) · cy drws (passage of a door) · el άνοιγμα πόρτας (passage of a door) · uk дверни́й о́твір (passage of a door) · nb døråpning (passage of a door) · sv dörröppning (passage of a door) · tum muryango (passage of a door) · nl deurgat (passage of a door) · gl portal (passage of a door) · pl wejście (passage of a door) · gl porta (passage of a door) · hu ajtónyílás (passage of a door) · la ianua (passage of a door) · pt vão da porta (passage of a door) · fi ovensuu (passage of a door) · nv chʼéʼétiin (passage of a door)