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View definitions for doorway

doorway

noun as in ingress

noun as in portal

noun as in threshold

noun as in vestibule

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Stringer’s favorite spot to linger was in the front doorway, where he could watch over the indoor and outdoor crowds.

Householders have been taping up their windows, as businesses had sandbags delivered to put at their doorways to prevent coastal surges seeping into their properties.

From BBC

Back in the PG25 community hub in John Wood Street, volunteer Addie Williams is enjoying a free coffee after a morning "scraping out shop doorways".

From BBC

The killers then poured petrol around the bottom of the stairs and doorway at the property, on Lambourne Road, and set it alight, despite the cries of her two-year-old daughter upstairs.

From BBC

These airy, continuous structures are core to his architecture: sliding shelves, curtain-covered doorways, openings peeking into another place until little is hidden.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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