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
Miss Vost, as he realized after that demonstration in the areaway, could handle herself.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
All this while, across the street, in the shadow of an areaway, stood a man in a mackintosh and a felt hat drawn well down.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
Let's jump down, run alongside the house by the areaway, and get out on the street.
From The Little Washingtons' Travels by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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