Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doorway

/ˈdɔɹweɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: door-way
IPA: /ˈdɔɹweɪ/

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable

noun

An opening or passage in general.

Countable

Example Sentences

"I stood by the doorway to watch her go."
"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."
"Somewhere in the city / There's someone for you / Maybe in some doorway / You know love begins there too"
"Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent."
"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]."

Etymology

From door + way.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
British English: /ˈdɔːweɪ/

Usage

Countable

Inflected Forms

doorways (plural)

Derived Forms

doorwayed

Phrases

darken someone's doorway doorway page doorway state

Synonyms

door room access threshold

Rhymes With

norway

Questions

How do you pronounce doorway?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɔɹweɪ/.
What does doorway mean?: The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
Where does doorway come from?: From door + way.

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