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A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
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passageway
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Word definitions for passageway in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings. 2 Any way for passing in, out or through something.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE narrow ▪ We nodded at the mailboxes in, the narrow , tunnel-like passageway leading to the garden. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Disabled passengers should travel by Duchesse Anne if possible, instead of Armorique, which ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, American English, from passage + way (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passageway \Pas"sage*way`\, n. A way for passage; a hall. See Passage , 5.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a passage between rooms or between buildings a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: passage ]
Usage examples of passageway.
She followed the girl through the wardrobe and into the small passageway between the thick adobe walls.
Walking through a wall in the pitch black, feeling the rough adobe as she made her way blindly down a secret passageway, was sensible?
At the end of the passageway was the massive hatch to the aft compartment that lay open on its latch.
The deck tilted, and looking aft, it seemed the hundred-foot-long passageway was a stairwell, a ramp, inclined toward him, the lights no longer illuminating it, just some automatically activated battle lanterns.
Pacino pulled himself to his feet and followed Alameda through the tight passageway aft to the hatch they had come in from, then back to the original airlock and into the next compartment aft.
The smoking flame started snaking back through the doors of the armoury into the passageway that led to the main powder magazine.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
The rest of the Aurochs Hearth came through the long- house along the passageway.
Brinan and Crisavec suddenly burst into the space in the middle of the Mammoth Hearth, running down the passageway from the Aurochs and Crane hearths, chasing each other.
It had, for instance, allowed him to guide a beir remarkable plasticity through the intricate network, channels and passageways that existed in Prodi ship.
Raya made her way into the corridor to find Blee weaving around other evacuees as she maneuvered up the passageway toward her.
The passageway in which he strode was cold and barren, serving two purposes only: as an emergency manual breakaway should the normal docking release fail, and as a backup conduit for everything from digital signals to water and air.
Minutes later, after Sky Captain and Polly were both freed from their chains, they ran with Dex and the three old scientists down a rocky passageway.
Complex passageways existed between the modules that were grouped in a dodecahedral array.
The next day Myles had the armorer make him a score of large spikes, which he and Gascoyne drove between the ivy branches and into the cement of the wall, and so made a safe passageway by which to reach the window niche in the wall.