doorway

noun
🔊/ˈdɔːweɪ/
🔊/ˈdɔːrweɪ/
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  1. an opening into a building or a room, where the door is门口;门道;出入口
    • She stood in the doorway for a moment before going in.她在门口站了一会儿才进去。🔊🔊
    • homeless people sleeping in shop doorways露宿商店门口无家可归的人
    Extra Examples
    • We passed through the doorway and found ourselves in a walled garden.我们穿过门口,进入了一个有围墙的花园。
    • the doorway to the living room通向客厅的门道
    Topics Houses and homesb2, Buildingsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • open
    • narrow
    • arched
    verb + doorway
    • block
    preposition
    • in a/​the doorway
    • through a/​the doorway
    • doorway into
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