Definitions for Doorway
ˈdɔrˌweɪ, ˈdoʊr-door·way

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. doorway, door, room access, thresholdnoun

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. doorwaynoun

   The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

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1. doorway

   A doorway is an opening or entrance in a wall, typically rectangular in shape, that allows passage between the interior and exterior spaces of a building or a room. It is usually fitted with a door and is often accompanied by surrounding architectural elements such as a frame, lintel or threshold.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Doorwaynoun

   the passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room

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1. Doorway

   Doorway is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Their Post Office closed in 1959.

Matched Categories

1. • Entrance

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Doorway' in Nouns Frequency: #1934

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce Doorway?

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How to say Doorway in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Doorway in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Doorway in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Doorway in a Sentence

1. Rich Murphy:

   One of the number one reactions to PTSD is isolation. People just withdraw, out of fear or that they do n’t fit in, i had a guy who did the program last year, his wife came up to me and gave me a hug and said, ‘ thank you, he has n’t left the house since winter. ’ [ Veterans to Farmers ] is just opening the doorway for these men and women.

2. Daisaku Ikeda:

   You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

3. Thor Eells:

   When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.

4. Attorney Lara Roetzel:

   I didn't think the youngest would be able to do it. She was seven at the time of the trial, but justice demanded that I try her on the stand if I wanted to get a conviction on that count. Six minutes she stood in the doorway sobbing.

5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Doorway
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Doorway
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Doorway
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Doorway
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Doorway