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doorway

[ dawr-wey, dohr- ]

noun

  1. the passage or opening into a building, room, etc., commonly closed and opened by a door; portal.
  2. a means of access:

    a doorway to success.



doorway

/ ˈ»åÉ”ËËŒ·É±ðɪ /

noun

  1. an opening into a building, room, etc, esp one that has a door
  2. a means of access or escape

    a doorway to freedom

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of doorway1

First recorded in 1790–1800; door + way 1
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Alice describes trying to leave his bedroom but being aggressively "yanked back from the doorway".

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That sneaked into the show, and it’s maybe a little doorway into the next series.

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But he relocated to Woodford with his partner and two younger children after a gunman opened fire at him and his pregnant daughter in the doorway of their Woolwich home in September 2018.

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If she squinted at the doorway, past the palm tree, over the pool and to the mountains, she could pretend that nothing bad had happened.

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Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.

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