doorway
The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
Example
“I stood by the doorway to watch her go.”
Other meanings
An opening or passage in general.
“Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent.”
Synonyms
- room access
- threshold
A kind of
- entrance
Kinds of doorway
- exterior door
Related words
- doorwayed
- darken someone's doorway
- doorway page
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “doorway” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.