passageway

English

Etymology

From passage +‎ way.

Noun

passageway (plural passageways)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Translations

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 f
• German: Durchgang (de) m, Korridor (de) m
• Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos)

  Ancient: διάδρομος m (diádromos)

• Italian: corsia (it) f
• Japanese: 通路 (ja) (つうろ, tsūro)
• Norwegian: passasje m
• Ottoman Turkish: دهلیز (dehliz, dihliz)
• 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)

any way for passing in, out or through something

• Bulgarian: проход (bg) m (prohod)
• Dutch: doorgang (nl) m
• Esperanto: pasejo
• Finnish: reitti (fi), käytävä (fi)
• Greek: πέρασμα (el) f (pérasma)

  Ancient: πόρος m (póros)

• Norwegian: passasje m
• Portuguese: passagem (pt) f
• Russian: прохо́д (ru) m (proxód), перехо́д (ru) m (perexód)
• Spanish: pasillo (es) m