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Entryway

Definition: Entryway

Entryway

Noun

1. Something that allows access (entry or exit); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Entryway

Synonyms: entrance (n), entranceway (n), entree (n), entry (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Entryway

English words defined with "entryway": entrance, entranceway, entree, entry. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Entryway

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Photo Album: Entryway

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Halftone photograph, from a contemporary publication, showing Brigadier General Thomas B. Anderson, U.S. Army, and his staff visiting the cruiser at Honolulu, 2 June 1898. Anderson was in command of the first expedition of troops sent to the Philippines, convoyed by Charleston from Honolulu to Manila. He was a son of Major General Robert Anderson, who had commanded Fort Sumter at the beginning of the Civil War. Note breech of 6-inch gun and carved wooden entryway sideboard at left, and boat stowage overhead.Credit: NAVY.

Electric League of Washington electric home. Empty entryway leading to rooms and stairs.Credit: Library of Congress.

Miscellaneous interiors. View through entryway and stairs.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Entryway

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

New construction to be completed by the year 2000 includes building of several sea walls and a second port entryway to separate leisure, sport and fishing boats from the larger commercial ships. (references)

Economic History

Luxembourg

As such, Luxembourg provides a unique and opportune entryway into the heart of European commerce. (references)

Liberia

Krahn leader Roosevelt Johnson survived the initial attack and sought refuge in the American Embassy on September 19. Police opened fire on Johnson and seven supporters in the entryway of the Embassy, killing two members of Johnson's party, and wounding others, including two Embassy employees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Entryway

"Entryway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Entryway" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Entryway

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

entryway furniture

22

entryway

15

entryway door

12

entryway table

11

entryway bench

8

entryway design

6

entryway mirror

4

decorating entryway

4

entryway storage bench

3

door double entryway

2

decorating entryway idea

2

beveled entryway glass

2

entryway steps

2

designing entryway front

2

entryway decor

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Entryway

Language Translations for "entryway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مدخل (access, door, doorway, entrance, entry, gate, gateway, hallway, inlet, introduction, opening, preface, start, vestibule, way in). (various references)

   

Danish

  

indgang (access, contraction, directory entry, entrance, entry, entry of a procedure, input, introitus, opening, port, portal, shrinkage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

toegang (access, access gallery, accession, adit, admission, admittance, entrance, entrance gallery, entry, making land, portal), ingang (directory entry, entrance, entry, input, portal). (various references)

   

French

  

entrée (book entry, directory entry, entrée, entrance, entry, entry of a procedure, pallet fork entry). (various references)

   

German

  

Eingang (access, accession, admission, admittance, beginning, delivery, doorway, entrance, entry, entry of a procedure, inlet, input, input process, portal, receipt, start, threshold). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προθάλαμος (anteroom, entrance, entry, foyer, lobby, vestibule), "αντρέ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bejárat (door, entrance, entranceway, entry, gate, gateway, hallway, inlet, mouth, port, portal). (various references)

   

Italian

  

entrate (accessions, earnings, income, incoming, opening, passage, proceeds, receipt, Receipts, revenue, you all come in), ingresso (access, admission, admittance, entrance, entry, gateway, ingress, input, introitus, making land). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entrywayay

   

Spanish

  

entrada (access, accession, admission, admittance, audience, beginning, book entry, crowd, deposit, door, doorway, down payment, entrée, entrance, entrance hall, entry, gate, gate money, gateway, house, income, influx, injection, inlet, innings, input, intake, lead, lead in, mouth, opening, outlet, pit bank, pit brow, pithead, porch, portal, posting, ramp portal, receipts, right of entry, shaft collar, tackle, takings, ticket, way in). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Entryway

Derivations

Words beginning with "entryway": entryways. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Entryway

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-t-w-y-y"

-2 letters: tawney, wanter, watery, yawner.

-3 letters: antre, entry, rewan, tawer, tawny, teary, twyer, waney, warty, water, weary, yearn, yenta.

-4 letters: aery, anew, ante, arty, awny, awry, earn, etna, eyra, eyry, nary, near, neat, newt, rant, rate, rent, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tray, trey, twae, tyer, tyne, tyre, wane, want, wany, ware, warn, wart, wary.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-t-w-y-y"
 

+1 letter: entryways.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Entryway


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 74 72 79 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#121 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0072 0079 0077 0061 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3980868491896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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