Synonyms for doorway
ˈdɔrˌweɪ, ˈdoʊr-door·way

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1. doorway

   Entrance, the act of entering, refers merely to the fact of passing from without to within some enclosure; admission and admittance refer to entering by or with some one's consent, or at least to opportunity afforded by some one's act or neglect. We may effect or force an entrance, but not admittance or admission; those we gain, procure, obtain, secure, win. Admittance refers to place, admission refers also to position, privilege, favor, friendship, etc. An intruder may gain admittance to the hall of a society who would not be allowed admission to its membership. Approach is a movement toward another; access is coming all the way to his presence, recognition, and consideration. An unworthy favorite may prevent even those who gain admittance to a king's audience from obtaining any real access to the king. Entrance is also used figuratively for setting out upon some career, or becoming a member of some organization; as, we speak of one's entrance upon college life, or of entrance into the ministry.

   Synonyms:
   access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, door, entrance, entrée, entry, gate, gateway, ingress, inlet, introduction, opening, penetration, portal

   Antonyms:
   departure, egress, ejection, exclusion, exit, expulsion, refusal, rejection, withdrawal

   Preposition:
   Entrance into a place; on or upon a work or course of action; into or upon office; into battle; by or through the door; within the gates; into or among the company.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. doorway, door, room access, thresholdnoun

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

   "he stuck his head in the doorway"

   Synonyms:
   verge, doorsill, brink, doorstep, limen, threshold, room access, door

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1. List of paraphrases for "doorway":

   door, entry, gate, porch

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1. Erik Pevernagie:

   A doorway is an ambiguous phenomenon, a liminal spot in a person’s life. A door can be a choice, a possibility, a protection or an aperture to new-fangled values. It can mean a barrier, a prison or a gate to freedom. It can, however, vanish in the mist of unawareness by lack of social concern. At that moment, our freedom has become our jail and we feel locked up in our own liberty. Any exit has waned: the doorway has been absorbed in the stupor of our infatuation. ( “In the doorway” )

2. Thor Eells:

   When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.

3. Freya Stark:

   On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

4. Thomas Robertson.Jacob Fracker:

   I entered through a doorway, kind of looked around a bit.

5. Douglas Kirkland:

   What I saw step through the doorway was like a gleaming figure -- very special, brilliant, to me, she didn't seem to walk. She almost floated in slow-motion.