DOORWAY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DOORWAY?

Need another word that means the same as “doorway”? Find 10 synonyms and 30 related words for “doorway” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Doorway” are: door, room access, threshold, portal, opening, hatch, entrance, entry, exit, egress

Doorway as a Noun

Definitions of "Doorway" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “doorway” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An entrance to a room or building through a door.
• The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close.

Synonyms of "Doorway" as a noun (10 Words)

door	The entrance the space in a wall through which you enter or leave a room or building the space that a door can close. We closed the door to Haitian immigrants.
egress	The action of going out of or leaving a place. A narrow egress.
entrance	The right, means, or opportunity to enter somewhere or be a member of an institution, society, or other body. Her final entrance is as a triumphant princess.
entry	The act of entering. More young people are postponing their entry into full time work.
exit	A place for traffic to leave a major road or roundabout. An emergency exit.
hatch	A movable barrier covering a hatchway. A spare wheel mounted on the rear hatch.
opening	The act of opening something. The opening established the basic theme.
portal	A website or web page providing access or links to other sites. The portals of the cathedral.
room access	Opportunity for.
threshold	A strip of wood or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room. He stood on the threshold of Sheila s bedroom.

Usage Examples of "Doorway" as a noun

• Beth stood there in the doorway.
• The doorway to success.
• He stuck his head in the doorway.

Associations of "Doorway" (30 Words)

anteroom	A large room in an officers’ mess, typically adjacent to the dining room.
brink	The extreme edge of land before a steep slope or a body or water. The country was on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
bungalow	(in SE Asia) a large detached house with more than one storey.
ceiling	(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds. The books were stacked from floor to ceiling.
cottage	(in the context of casual homosexual encounters) a public toilet. They said that at some point in their lives they ve cottaged or cruised in parks.
door	A doorway. She walked through the door.
doorstep	The sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway. Doorstep sandwiches.
exit	Used as a stage direction in a play to indicate that an actor leaves the stage. She slipped out by the rear exit.
facade	The principal front of a building, that faces on to a street or open space. The house has a half timbered facade.
foyer	A large entrance or reception room or area. The foyer of the concert hall.
gate	A gateway. They were opening the gates of their country wide to the enemy.
hall	A large and imposing house. Halls of learning.
hallway	An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
homestead	Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
house	The people living in a house a household. She felt she had to get out of the house.
jamb	Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame. He leaned against the door jamb.
lintel	Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
lobby	In the UK lobby correspondents collectively. Members of the anti abortion lobby.
mansion	A terrace or mansion block. Carlyle Mansions.
mews	Street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings. A mews house.
passageway	A passage between rooms or between buildings. The palace was full of secret passageways.
porch	A structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance. The north porch of Hereford Cathedral.
residence	Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily. A person can have several residences.
roof	Function as the roof of. Roof timbers.
tenement	A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
terrace	Provide a house with a terrace. Breakfast is served on the terrace.
threshold	The starting point for a new state or experience. She was on the threshold of a dazzling career.
treetop	The upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant.
verge	An extreme limit beyond which something specified will happen. His behavior verges on the criminal.
window	A pane of glass in a window. The ball shattered the window.