passageway

noun

pas·​sage·​way ˈpa-sij-ˌwā How to pronounce passageway (audio)
: a way that allows passage

Examples of passageway in a Sentence

the passageway to the other side of the office
Recent Examples on the Web Caves have meant many things for human culture through the ages, and still capture the imagination with their inextricable passageways and impossibly large caverns. Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024 The addition will take the form of a second building connecting to the original museum via a third-floor door and passageway leading to a courtyard with views of the sky. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 Most have an entrance that leads through a passageway. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024 And as for the gloriously Eurotrash score playing over every other scene of venomous nun-on-nun attacks and slow-dread strolls down shadowy passageways, Goblin may want to contact their lawyers. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024 Moments later, the officers, including Bennett, started firing toward a wide passageway behind a building, prosecutors said. Emily Davies, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024 On top of the interruption of port activity, the collapse of the Key Bridge removes a major passageway for vehicles, especially commercial ones, Zandi said. Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024 Was this just a shallow pocket, or a longer subterranean passageway? Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024 Price is deliciously diabolical in the film, which is full of literal and metaphorical trap doors and secret passageways. Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1606, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of passageway was circa 1606

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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passageway. Accessed 5 May. 2024.

Kids Definition

passageway

noun
pas·​sage·​way -ˌwā How to pronounce passageway (audio)
: a road or way by which a person or thing may pass

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