doorway

noun

door·​way ˈdȯr-ˌwā How to pronounce doorway (audio)
1
: the opening that a door closes
especially : an entrance into a building or room
2

Examples of doorway in a Sentence

Please don't block the doorway. She stepped through the doorway. He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in. Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
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In the short clip, the 6-foot, 400-lb. alligator appeared to slowly approach a dog statue in the home's yard before making its way up the porch to the doorway. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025 Daniel Hodges, one of the officers who was injured on Jan. 6 after being pinned in a doorway of the Capitol and crushed, said Mr. Trump’s whitewashing of Jan. 6 was necessary to preserve his supporters’ belief in their own goodness and patriotism. Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025 Capitol surveillance video footage showed Pacheco standing in the doorway on the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol around 2:37 p.m., the affidavit said. Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025 The brick likely made its way to Christopher Street in 1930, when the building, originally a nineteenth-century stable, got its brick-and-stucco façade, with arched doorways. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for doorway 

Word History

First Known Use

1666, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of doorway was in 1666

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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

doorway

noun
door·​way -ˌwā How to pronounce doorway (audio)
1
: the opening or passage that a door closes
2
: a means of reaching or gaining something
the doorway to success

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