entryway

1. 1.

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

   “they waited at the entrance to the garden”

   “beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral”

   Synonymsentranceentrancewayentryentree

   Broaderaccess

   Narrowerarchdoorwaygatewayhatchwaypitheadportalporte-cochereservice doorstage doorvomitory

Other forms of entryway

plural

entryways·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entryway

What does entryway mean?

entryway means "something that provides access (to get in or get out)".

How many syllables are in entryway?

entryway has 3 syllables: en-try-way. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /ˈɛntɹiweɪ/.

What is another word for entryway?

Close synonyms include entrance, entranceway, entry, entree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entryway a common word?

entryway is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.