passageway

[ pas-ij-wey ]

noun

1. a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.

   Synonyms: walk, path, access, passage

2. a corridor on a ship.

passageway

/ ˈpæsɪdʒˌweɪ /

noun

1. a way, esp one in or between buildings; passage

Word History and Origins

Origin of passageway¹

First recorded in 1640–50; passage ¹ + way ¹

Example Sentences

In the vast debris field where the World Trade Center had stood, firefighters had long ago rescued the last of the handful of people who were found alive, huddled in a stairwell or in underground passageways.

From Washington Post

Off the living room, a narrow passageway at a left angle to the main corridor led to the first-floor bedrooms.

From Washington Blade

The researchers trekked into the wide chambers and narrow passageways of Isuntza I Cave.

From Science News For Students

In a narrow passageway there, Stone Age people had used stone lamps.

From Science News For Students

A 1972 bestselling book by Swiss author Erich von Däniken, called The Gold of the Gods, claimed that Tayos held carved passageways and a “metal library” of tablets written in an unknown language.

From Outside Online

What had once been her passageway to freedom, at least of the intellectual kind, eventually became her prison.

From The Daily Beast

A stone mosque built not long after the city became a well-trodden passageway still stands as a central attraction in the town.

From The Daily Beast

Pistorius said that as he headed down the passageway, he heard a “door slam.”

From The Daily Beast

Bratton rode down to the Broadway-Lafayette station and took a passageway to the Bleecker Street stop.

From The Daily Beast

The parents waited by the passageway where all arrivals in that part of the terminal were funneled.

From The Daily Beast

She was just about to call out to reassure them when a sound in the passageway behind her made her hold her breath in suspense.

From Project Gutenberg

He reserved, of course, a passageway to his own door, narrower or wider according to the circumstances.

From Project Gutenberg

The passageway was growing damper; water trickled down the walls and gathered in fetid pools on the floor.

From Project Gutenberg

One was the passageway from front to rear, for the family occupied a floor, but could afford only one fire.

From Project Gutenberg

The visitor stepped into a passageway which was dim until he entered it and the door swung behind him.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• hallway
• passage
• walkway