passageway
- a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.
- a corridor on a ship.
Origin of passageway
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hallway, passage, walkway, aisle, ingress, alley, hall, path, lobby, entranceway, couloirExamples from the Web for passageway
Contemporary Examples of passageway
What had once been her passageway to freedom, at least of the intellectual kind, eventually became her prison.
Pistorius said that as he headed down the passageway, he heard a “door slam.”
Bratton rode down to the Broadway-Lafayette station and took a passageway to the Bleecker Street stop.
The parents waited by the passageway where all arrivals in that part of the terminal were funneled.
Then a man holding an automatic pistol appeared from a passageway between two buildings.
Historical Examples of passageway
He pointed to the one that gave on the passageway against which he had set the chair tilted.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
At the end of the passageway, facing him, was the master room.
Slaves of MercuryNat Schachner
Every moment Madden expected a rush of sea water down the passageway.
The Cruise of the Dry DockT. S. Stribling
Then we entered the car, rose to the top of the passageway, and discovered you.
Beyond it the passageway was alive with crowding red figures.
Two Thousand Miles BelowCharles Willard Diffin
passageway
- a way, esp one in or between buildings; passage