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doorway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doorway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
open
▪ When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him.
▪ From the open doorway comes a breeze and the sounds of a playground.
▪ Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit, and shadows jostling on the walls.
▪ Another woman, older than most of the others, appeared at the open doorway.
▪ When he saw the room was empty he turned and walked through the open doorway of Johnny's room, searching.
▪ Mylar mirrors magnified the sunlight, directing it into the open doorway of the building on the corner.
▪ You creep along to an open doorway.
▪ The tap-tap boy with the crooked gaze stood in the open doorway, grinning as usual.
■ NOUN
kitchen
▪ They were framed by the kitchen doorway.
▪ But then she was there in the kitchen doorway.
▪ She rushed after him, almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway.
▪ Two relatives listen soberly from the kitchen doorway.
▪ The cat watched her from the kitchen doorway and she returned its stare.
▪ He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
▪ Maurin appeared in the kitchen doorway.
▪ She sat stiffly on a ladder-back chair in the kitchen doorway.
shop
▪ I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen.
▪ Today's vagrants, squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways, are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere.
▪ He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway, surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory.
▪ In a nearby shop doorway an eighty-two-year-old pensioner had been hurled against a door frame, knocking her unconscious.
▪ I couldn't even get out of my shop doorway earlier for people.
▪ A man came out of the shop doorway and stared at her.
▪ At that moment, in the distance, a figure appeared from the shop doorway.
■ VERB
appear
▪ Gabriel appeared in the doorway, his cheeks red and his healthy face shining.
▪ Another woman, older than most of the others, appeared at the open doorway.
▪ Behind her Bill Lawrence appeared in the doorway.
▪ A few minutes later a man in his early thirties appears just inside the doorway.
▪ Just as Mr Mullen fell on his back, blood pouring from his nose, Gail appeared in the doorway.
▪ It was the father who appeared in the doorway, a tall man with a plaid blanket folded over one arm.
▪ Maurin appeared in the kitchen doorway.
▪ Ada, come on, come on. Appear in that doorway.
come
▪ As Sophie and Giles came through the doorway, Robert turned quickly away, leaving Dawn alone.
▪ Alice came to the doorway pulling curlers from her hair.
▪ Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up.
▪ Zachary, a big, chunky kid who played baseball and soccer, came through the doorway first.
▪ But as we were coming out of the doorway, running across there, sidling round the side was the inspector.
▪ A man came out of the shop doorway and stared at her.
▪ If he's forgotten the stabilizers ... Lights had come on beyond the doorway.
▪ The doorway, there was grey daylight coming from the doorway.
fill
▪ He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes.
▪ Donna Charito filled the doorway a moment with her large body, then she pulled the door to with a great slam.
▪ She was on the phone and he stood silently, filling the doorway, raising an eyebrow at her.
▪ For a moment nothing happened except that the figure of Cesar seemed to grow larger and fill the doorway.
frame
▪ They were framed by the kitchen doorway.
look
▪ Then they all looked out of the open doorway.
▪ People were hurrying, others stood in doorways looking toward the center of town.
▪ There was a sharp intake of breath behind him, and there she stood in the doorway looking at him.
▪ When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great grey prairie on every side.
▪ She set off round the perimeter of the vast doorway, looking for anything that resembled a control panel.
▪ He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment.
pass
▪ She passed through the doorway, her eyes raking through the little knot of people clustered round it.
▪ On opening the door and passing through the doorway the plaintiff immediately fell down a flight of steps and sustained injury.
▪ Benny ran through the tunnels, making for the dock, but soon she passed a familiar doorway.
▪ They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall, but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out.
▪ As Arabella passed one of the doorways, a pair of hands shot out.
pause
▪ Despite all her resolution, she paused outside the plate-glass doorway and looked around guiltily.
▪ She paused in the doorway leading to the grey corridor that ran across the back of the house.
▪ The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway.
▪ She paused in the doorway of Nathan's room.
reach
▪ When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him.
▪ She turned as Gail reached the doorway.
▪ The smith's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter's shop.
▪ When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open.
▪ His stomach tightened as he reached the doorway.
▪ By the time she reached the doorway he was out of firing range.
stand
▪ Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect.
▪ Fong stood in the doorway, his invitation clutched tightly in his hand.
▪ He was standing just inside the doorway, supporting Piper O'Rourke, who was looking old, tired and bruised.
▪ I stood in the doorway of a store during the storms we were having and watched the rain fall through the gloom.
▪ Later, Ashley stood in the doorway of the barn.
▪ Meg stood in the garden doorway, her small figure silhouetted against the twilight redness of the bay.
▪ Foster stood by the doorway of the hotel, next to a potted palm.
step
▪ She stepped aside into the doorway of the next room while Luch drifted out and down the stair.
▪ The moment Joseph stepped through the doorway he began coughing uncontrollably.
▪ Suddenly Raul stepped out of a doorway, swinging a huge knife.
▪ That moment when she had stepped through his office doorway and seen him standing there with Nina.
▪ Oh, the disgusted look on women's faces as they step backwards through a doorway, out of the rain.
turn
▪ Immediately after, he turned aside to a doorway and vomited.
▪ Before I could catch up to him, Langford began to turn into the doorway of La Boheme.
▪ Fenn turned back to the doorway, his hair flat and wet against his forehead.
▪ Auguste was thankful when he turned into the doorway of the hotel, the sight of other temptations removed from him.
walk
▪ Then he walked out through the doorway.
▪ He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
▪ She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway.
▪ Then, nervously and slowly, he walked to the doorway.
watch
▪ With a laugh she watched from a doorway as the man searched aimlessly for her.
▪ As they travelled over the gentle swells, she became aware of Ronnie watching her from the doorway.
▪ The huge man was watching from the doorway of the house.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a wide doorway into the kitchen
▪ Large corporations are seeking a doorway to the markets of the Far East.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although she was not a tall woman, she had to stoop low to get through the doorway.
▪ Around them, laid out flatly, are the 12 apostles each occupying a Moorish arched doorway.
▪ I slept in doorways, in hobo jungles, in flophouses, in open pastures.
▪ The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway.
▪ The new pseudo-Romanesque façade maintained only the doorway.
▪ The townspeople abandoned the doorways and the sidewalks and followed the ambulance up the hill.
▪ They are blocking the hotel doorway, demanding signatures or tokens from her, as of right.
▪ Weatheralls had a shop there - mackintosh people - with a deep doorway.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doorway

Doorway \Door"way`\, n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doorway

1799, from door + way (n.).

Wiktionary
doorway

n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

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WordNet
doorway

n. the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: door, room access, threshold]

Wikipedia
Doorway

Doorway may refer to:

Usage examples of "doorway".

The heavy door exploded inward, blasted into splinters, and Aunt Pol stood in the shattered doorway, her white lock ablaze and her eyes dreadful.

His people rising, Mohandas was halfway to the doorway, and Aiken was half-tempted to let him go.

Nichols - the names written in the wet cement when the pavement was new long ago, the great ailanthus tree in the schoolyard, the weatherbeaten gargoyles over the doorway of the building across the street.

In the north aisle, and in the second bay from the west, is a doorway, which opened to a Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, now altogether destroyed.

The aisle doorways are plain, but over both are some sculptured figures.

The men alaying under the earth in gray have lain down their lives for some reason we may never know, just as the Lord knows all things, for some strange purpose He allowed this great conflict to take place on the earth and the people held in bondage to be unfettered and men of the South to be blinded even in their own doorways.

He looked at the Alcalde and smiled, whereupon that official turned and made a signal with his hand to a man who, dressed in a quiet uniform, had appeared in the doorway of the house.

With a quick motion he indicated that Alec should cross the doorway quickly and quietly.

Torn between shame and relief, Alec watched through the open doorway as Seregil returned to his unpleasant task.

And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.

Freyja was in the sacred woods gathering herbs, and Anomia, who could have done something to stop it, stood in her doorway, laughing and deriving obvious pleasure from seeing the men pounding one another.

Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.

Under this arcading in the transept is a doorway, built by Lord Grimthorpe, partly from fragments of the west doorway of the old slype, and partly from his own design.

Althalus entered the throne room, and no more than a moment later the Queen of Night appeared in the doorway with Argan and the dead-eyed Yakhag close behind her.

Khnom burst out of nowhere, grasped the stunned Argan by the arm, and dragged him through a doorway that had flames behind it.