Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The entranceway to a room, building, or passage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the passage of a door; the entranceway into a room or building.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
passage of adoor ;entrance way into a house or a room.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
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Examples
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[ALICE HEMINGWAY appears in doorway to left and looks on.]
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[Stops for a moment in doorway and speaks very solemnly.]
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Thank God! (During the following speech of Dobleman, Rutland says good-bye to Margaret and Dolores Ortega and makes exit.) (Margaret and Dolores Ortega rise a minute afterward and go toward exit, throwing curious glances at the men but not disturbing them.) (Dolores Ortega makes exit.) (Margaret pauses in doorway a moment, giving a final anxious glance at the men, and makes exit.)
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EnlargeSonya Davis, in doorway, talks to grandkids Malik and Imani Davis and neighbor Troy Locke at the B.W. Cooper housing project in New Orleans.
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If the string falls to the ground the doorway is safe.
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The doorway is on the left of the platform - centre-stage facing forward as the entrance to the Hellhole.
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The shot at the end where the old guy talks about his crush while Harriet appears briefly in the doorway is beyond cheesy.
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The shot at the end where the old guy talks about his crush while Harriet appears briefly in the doorway is beyond cheesy.
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The doorway is on the left side of the platform and a display stand cuts the platform in half.
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The doorway is on the left of the platform - centre-stage facing forward as the entrance to the Hellhole.
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