hallway

[ hawl-wey ]

noun

1. a corridor, as in a building.
2. an entrance hall.

hallway

/ ˈhɔːlˌweɪ /

noun

1. a hall or corridor

Word History and Origins

Origin of hallway¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; hall + way ¹

Example Sentences

When it rains in Culver City, water drips from ceilings throughout the hospital’s two buildings, forcing staff to relocate patients and plant orange buckets in the hallways.

From ProPublica

In one demo billed as a huge dinosaur wandering around an office, it created the effect by situating the creature at the far end of an open hallway so it would fit in the display.

From Fortune

I tested the Apple Watch by wheeling down a carpeted hallway at a regular pace.

From FiveThirtyEight

Because every minute is scheduled with video calls, we’ve lost the spontaneity of walking down the hallway and dropping in on somebody, or that casual stairwell conversation—a lot of that is gone.

From Fortune

Flooding your condo, your neighbor’s, or your common hallway is an uncomfortable position to be in.

From Washington Blade

They work in a world filled with a sense—real or imagined—of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway.

From The Daily Beast

A 28-year-old gunned down in a dark, New York City hallway by a rookie cop who apparently made a fatal mistake.

From The Daily Beast

When I finished, Tom Hanks and Bill Hader came on either side of me and ran me down this hallway.

From The Daily Beast

Martin Amis asks as he greets me in the invitingly elegant hallway of his Brooklyn brownstone.

From The Daily Beast

The man who failed to help a little girl in the hallway of his building, to tragic end.

From The Daily Beast

Something very peculiar, I felt, noticing the door leading from the broad hallway to the dining-room closed, contrary to custom.

From Project Gutenberg

Lamb was just lighting a cigaret, gazing down the hallway of the fourteenth floor, when the muffled report came up the staircase.

From Project Gutenberg

But the old man, their father—as he was crossing the hallway, we saw him suddenly stop.

From Project Gutenberg

Not one of the others had heard a sound; but now they were aware that soft footsteps were pattering along the hallway.

From Project Gutenberg

In the hallway I met a German countess weeping in real sorrow while her grandmother was trying to console her.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• corridor
• entrance