ENTRANCEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entranceway mean? 

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

1. something that provides access (to get in or get out)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRANCEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that provides access (to get in or get out)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway

Context example:

beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral

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

access; approach (a way of entering or leaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entranceway"):

arch; archway (a passageway under a curved masonry construction)

door; doorway; room access; threshold (the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close)

gateway (an entrance that can be closed by a gate)

hatchway; opening; scuttle (an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship)

pithead (the entrance to a coal mine)

portal (a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically))

porte-cochere (a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard)

servant's entrance; service door; service entrance (an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse)

stage door (an entrance to the backstage area of theater; used by performers and other theater personnel)

vomitory (an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium)