Doorway Meaning
/ˈdɔɹweɪ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
nounAn opening or passage in general.
Sentence Examples
Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow doorway are in checkmate.
The door opened and there she was, standing in the doorway.
A friendly neighbor stood in the doorway and greeted us warmly.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She paused in the ____ to take off her muddy boots.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow ____ are in checkmate.
Word Origin & History
From door + way.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She paused in the ____ to take off her muddy boots.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow ____ are in checkmate.