ARCHWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archway mean? 

• ARCHWAY (noun)
  The noun ARCHWAY has 1 sense:

1. a passageway under a curved masonry construction

  Familiarity information: ARCHWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passageway under a curved masonry construction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arch; archway

Context example:

they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory

Hypernyms ("archway" is a kind of...):

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))

Holonyms ("archway" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

 Context examples 

Half a minute conducted them through the pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Doctors' Commons was approached by a little low archway.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She did not hear him cross the courtyard beyond, nor see him pause in the archway that led from the subterranean path into the garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For a moment it tottered and swayed, and then, falling outward, buried him in its ruin, while his comrades rushed into the dark archway which led to safety.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the longer stretches one could hardly tell as one looked ahead where the distant green water ended and the distant green archway began.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is an excellent archway down yonder in case a too zealous policeman should intrude.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They each took one of Peggotty's trunks, and we were going away, when Mr. Barkis solemnly made a sign to me with his forefinger to come under an archway.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Clear as crystal, motionless as a sheet of glass, green as the edge of an iceberg, it stretched in front of us under its leafy archway, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across its shining surface.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They overhung the archway, thrust themselves between the bars of the great gate with a sweet welcome to passers-by, and lined the avenue, winding through lemon trees and feathery palms up to the villa on the hill.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)