doorway

Definition

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

Etymology

From door + way.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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]."