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entryway

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure; a pathway allowing entry into a locality or region.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • There were greeters handing out programmes in the entryway to the museum.
  • In those days the North Pass was the only entryway to the valley that was passable by cart or wagon traffic.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: entrance

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they waited at the entrance to the garden
  • beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, entree

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: access, approach

Narrower terms: arch, archway, doorway, door, room access, threshold, gateway, hatchway, opening, scuttle, pithead, portal, porte-cochere, service door, service entrance, servant's entrance, stage door, vomitory

History

Etymology

From entry + way.

Across languages

Translations

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Choctaw: achukkowa — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Finnish: eteinen — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Windfang — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Eingangsflur — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Eingangskorridor — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Eingang — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Eingangsbereich — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • German: Lobby — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Hungarian: bejárat — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Hungarian: előtér — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Hungarian: belépő — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Japanese: 玄関 (genkan) — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Latvian: ieeja — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Macedonian: влез (vlez) — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Macedonian: хо́дник (hódnik) — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Polish: wejście — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Polish: wjazd — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Spanish: zaguán — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure
  • Swedish: tambur — opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure