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Definition of Doorway
1. Noun. The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close. "He stuck his head in the doorway"
Terms within: Case, Casing, Door, Doorcase, Doorframe, Doorsill, Doorstep, Threshold
Generic synonyms: Entrance, Entranceway, Entree, Entry, Entryway
Specialized synonyms: Exterior Door, Outside Door
Group relationships: Wall
Definition of Doorway
1. n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Definition of Doorway
1. Noun. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doorway
1. the entranceway to a room or building [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorway
Literary usage of Doorway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"The doorway to the elevator shaft is 41 feet from that line. ... The shaft and
the doorway were located and the elevator was used as averred by the ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"The great south doorway I have left intact, as a specimen of a Saxon doorway in
a sufficient state of completeness to be intelligible; but in dealing with ..."
3. A History of Architecture in All Countries, from the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1893)
"West doorway, Lichfield Cathedral 857. Tomb of Bishop Marshall, Exeter Cathedral
858. ... South Transept, Elgin Cathedral Ornament of doorway of same . ..."
4. Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street (1914)
"CORNICE OF SOUTH TRANSEPT doorway The entrances to the cathedral are at present
three in number —a door in each transept and one in the south wall—in ..."
5. Renaissance and Modern Art by William Henry Goodyear (1908)
"In the French doorway (Fig. 48) we notice, as compared with ... momentous step
farther in the same direction is visible in our next French doorway (Fig. ..."
6. A History of Architecture in Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Dawn by Charles Amos Cummings (1901)
"doorway. of Benevento as an example of the Pisau influence in the South. But if
it be compared with the doorway of the cathedral or or the ..."
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