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
Bill heard his steps and concealed himself in the areaway.
From A Boy Knight by Martin Jerome Scott
The door to the house from the areaway was shaking to irregular, heavy blows, which stopped as Alan reached the lower hallway; the shouts continued still a moment more.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
The street widening had shorn off the original areaway of the house, and the service entrance was now a mere slit in the sidewalk with a steep stair swallowed up in blackness below.
From The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner
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