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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That’s because his PS Lounge bar shares a doorway with Enzo, and the two businesses can service each other’s customers that way.
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John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
Video of the crash showed a silver Subaru backing into the business via a doorway before making a turn and driving out via another doorway.
—Bill Feather, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On the night of the death, Fulton was with his fiancée at the University of Chicago hospital, then home at their apartment — where security cameras monitored every doorway.
—Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
That calculation does not include what seems to be a possibly public hallway from which Hilaria routinely posts selfies — identifiable from a mirror that’s across from an elevator, in a hall with cold lighting, gray terrazzo, and what might be — allegedly — their neighbors’ doorways.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
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John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
Video of the crash showed a silver Subaru backing into the business via a doorway before making a turn and driving out via another doorway.
—Bill Feather, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
On the night of the death, Fulton was with his fiancée at the University of Chicago hospital, then home at their apartment — where security cameras monitored every doorway.
—Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
That calculation does not include what seems to be a possibly public hallway from which Hilaria routinely posts selfies — identifiable from a mirror that’s across from an elevator, in a hall with cold lighting, gray terrazzo, and what might be — allegedly — their neighbors’ doorways.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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doorway
noun
door·way
-ˌwā 
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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