passageway - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From passage +‎ way.

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passageway (plural passageways)

A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
  The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
Any way for passing in, out or through something.
- 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
  The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.

covered walkway

Bulgarian: галерия (bg) f (galerija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 通道 (zh) (tōngdào)
Dutch: gang (nl) m
Finnish: käytävä (fi)
French: passage (fr) m
Galician: pasaxe (gl) f
German: Gang (de) m, Flur (de) m, Korridor (de) m, Durchgang (de) m, (between buildings) überdachter Verbindungsgang m
Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos)
Ancient Greek: διάδρομος m (diádromos)
Italian: corsia (it) f
Japanese: 通路 (ja) (つうろ, tsūro)
Norwegian: passasje m
Polish: przejście (pl) n
Portuguese: corredor (pt) m, passagem (pt) f
Russian: прохо́д (ru) m (proxód), перехо́д (ru) m (perexód), коридо́р (ru) m (koridór), пасса́ж (ru) m (passáž)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: دهلیز (dehliz, dihliz), آرالق (aralık), قوریدور (koridor)

any way for passing in, out or through something