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

It was my junior year of high school and OxyContin was showing up everywhere, in the hallways at school, parties on the weekend and in medicine cabinets all over central Appalachia.

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As they prepared to shoot a scene in a long hallway, I found a great spot to watch.

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Even when it doesn’t affect the plot directly, it’s the canvas the story is painted on, its whiteness of an intensity not otherwise seen on the screen, except in starship hallways.

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Upon opening the door, the man finds “darkness there and nothing more,” though just out of his view we can see a spectral figure floating in the hallway.

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“Been doing lots of styling and all that stuff,” she said, nodding toward a rack of clothes in the hallway of an Airbnb in the hills above West Hollywood.

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Related Words

• corridor 
• entrance