areaway
Americannoun
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a sunken area leading to a cellar or basement entrance, or in front of basement or cellar windows.
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a passageway, especially one between buildings.
noun
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a passageway between parts of a building or between different buildings
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See area
Etymology
Origin of areaway
Example Sentences
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They reached an areaway, separated from the consulate by an iron fence, just as three Russians burst out of the consulate's back door.
From Time Magazine Archive
I left the kitchen and went into the back areaway to breathe.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
The fact was that during the night some malicious person had placed under the front steps in the areaway of his house a barrel that had been filled with cotton waste saturated with oil.
From A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts by Carter, Nicholas
Let's jump down, run alongside the house by the areaway, and get out on the street.
From The Little Washingtons' Travels by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
It was twelve or thereabouts when two figures crept stealthily up the alley behind Mr. Tucker's Second-Hand Store and raised the window looking out on the areaway.
From The Dude Wrangler by Lockhart, Caroline
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