Passageway

Definitions: Passageway

Passageway

Noun

1. A passage between rooms or between buildings.

2. A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages".

Date "passageway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A narrow corridor in the vessel's accommodations. Source: European Union. (references)
Labor	The areas in a place of work which are designed for access by the employees to their places of work and for transport of materials. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Passageway

Synonym: passage (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Opening	Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	AIDS: Passageway to Transformation (reference) Corridor through the mountains : Smith's Cove, wartime line of communication and passageway for the Continental Army, 1776-1783 (reference) Passageway (reference) Problems of the Pelvic Passageway (reference) The Passageway (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Passageway to the Infinite Self (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ice spelunker in cave passageway at Erebus Glacier tongue.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		View down narrow outdoor passageway, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mrs. Reynolds Bagley, Musgrove Plantation, residence on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Passageway.Credit: Library of Congress.		Magnavox, business at Madison Ave. and 48th St., New York City. Passageway.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mr. Joseph Downs, residence in North Guilford, Connecticut. Passageway.Credit: Library of Congress.		Stark, residence in Mamaroneck, New York. Passageway.Credit: Library of Congress.
	National Airport. Interior passageway at National Airport.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Instead, arteries dump blood directly into veins through a passageway called a fistula. (references)
		They are located in the larynx or voice box. The larynx is positioned between the base of the tongue and the top of the trachea (windpipe), the passageway to the lungs. (references)
		Another reason has to do with the child's eustachian tube. The eustachian tube is a small passageway that connects the upper part of the throat to the middle ear. It is shorter and straighter in the child than in the adult. (references)
Economic History	Moldova	Moldova's location has made it a historic passageway between Asia and southern Europe as well as the victim of frequent warfare. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Passageway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Passageway" is used about 163 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	163	24,498

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.

Language		Translations for "passageway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vendkalim (crossing, ferriage, passing, walkway), korridor (aisle, alleyway, hall, hallway, passage), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممر (footpath, gangway, lane, passage, path, pathway, track, way), ‏معبر (expressing, expressive, meaningful, significant, soulful, telling), ‏دهليز (corridor, gallery, lobby, passage, vestibule). (various references)

Bulgarian		коридор (corridor, coulisse, hall, hallway, lobby, passage, vestibule), галерия (course, gallery, gangway, loft, passage, road, tunnel), пасаж (alley, alleyway, passage, place, run, school, way through). (various references)

Chinese		通�", �"�" (corridor). (various references)

Czech		prùjezd (passage, transit), prùchod (gateway, outlet, passage, transit), spojovací chodba. (various references)

Danish		passage (gangway, holding alley, passage, transit, travelling track, travelling way, walk through, walking track, walkway), opsamlingsgang (holding alley, walk through), korridor (corridor, gangway, gap, holding alley, passage, passage way, walk through), gang (aisle, alley, alleyway, clearance, corridor, dyke, gait, gangway, holding alley, iter, litter alley, lode, occasion, passage, passage way, porter, time, walk through), færdselsgang (gangway), færdselsareal (gangway). (various references)

Dutch		passage (covered passageway, end, gangway, gate, motion, passage, roofed passageway, traffic, transit), overgang (gangway, gate, junction, level crossing, passage, subs, transient, transition, transition coupling), doorgang (admittance, channel, flow path, gallery, gangway, gate, pass, passage, path, transit, work clearance). (various references)

Esperanto		pasejo (gangway, gate, passage). (various references)

Farsi		محل عبور, گذرگاه (Causeway, Defile, Gangway, Pass, Passage, Pathway), غلام گردش , راهرو (Aisle, Corridor, Door, Doorway, Gallery, Gangway, Passage, Pylon, Runway, Vestibule). (various references)

Finnish		kulkutie (gangway), käytävä (alleyway, corridor, gallery, gangway, insect hole, mine, passage, path, tunnel, walk). (various references)

French		passage (pass, passage, passbeyond, passing, passing through, path), couloir (pan, passage, trolley pan). (various references)

German		Durchgang (aisle, alleyway, channel, end, gangway, gateway, heat, litter alley, n., passage, path, round, stage, thoroughfar, transit), Korridor (corridor, hall, hallway, lobby, passage), Gang (aisle, alleyway, ambulation, arcade, bout, canal, clearance, colonnade, corridor, course, development, dike, duct, dyke, errand, gait, gallery, gang, gangway, gear, hallway, heat, landing, lead, lode, meatus, operation, pace, passage, passage(way), porter, rate, reef, running, speed, strake, stride, thread, tunnel, vein, walk, walkway, water gallery, workability). (various references)

Greek		πέρασμα (aisle, alley, course, creep, fly-by, funnel, gait, gangway, gate, lease-shed, opening, pass, passage, passing, sliding, transit, way), διάδρομοσ (alleyway, hall, hallway, lobby), διάδρομος αναμονής (holding alley, walk through), διάδρομος (aisle, alley, alleyway, carpeting for corridors or passages, clearance, corridor, funnel, gangway, passage, passage way, race), δίοδος (aisle, alleyway, iter, thoroughfare, travel). (various references)

Hebrew		מס�"רון (corridor, foyer, hall, hallway, lobby, vestibule). (various references)

Hungarian		folyosó (aisle, corridor, course, gangway, hallway, passage, portico). (various references)

Indonesian		gang (alley, alleyway, breezeway, corridor, gang, gangway, narrow street, passage, slum). (various references)

Italian		passaggio (admittance, aisle, alley, alleyway, arcade, changeover, clearance, conduit, crossing, entry, gangway, gateway, gut, handing, lift, pass, passage, passing, program run, programme run, recovery, run, transfer, transit, transition, transition coupling, way out, work clearance), viottolo (path, pathway, track), vie di accesso (gangway), corsia di accesso alle cabine (alleyway), corridoio di attesa (holding alley, walk through), corridoio (aisle, alleyway, clearance, corridor, gangway, hall, hallway, lobby, passage), corridoi (gangway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		歩廊 (corridor, gallery, platform). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほろう (corridor, gallery, platform). (various references)

Pig Latin		assagewaypay

Portuguese		corredor (access, aisle, alley, alleyway, ambulatory, clearance, corridor, cream-coloured courser, funnel, gallery, gangway, hall, highroad crossing, in the hotel lobby, lane, passage, racer, runner, runner up, running, runny, starter). (various references)

Russian		проход (access, adit, aisle, alleyway, aqueduct, canal, channel, entry, fairway, gangway, gate, orifice, pass, passage, passway, runway, steam ship, thoroughfare, walkway). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hodnik (corridor, couloir, foyer, hall, hallway, passage). (various references)

Spanish		paso (advance, advances, clearing, crossing, culvert, deed, despatch, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, making land, move, movement, narrows, overtaking, pace, pass, passage, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, spacing, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout, wheel track, wheelbase), pasadizo (catwalk, corridor, gangway, opening, passage), pasillo (aisle, alley, alleyway, clearance, corridor, gangway, hall, holding alley, Lane, lobby, passage, promenade, walk through, way). (various references)

Swedish		passage (gangway, pass, passage), tillträdes-och transportleder (gangway), korridor (alley, areaway, corridor, gangway, hall, hallway, lobby, passage), galleri (gallery, Piazza), gång (action, aisle, corridor, course, dike, duct, fault body, foot, gait, gallery, gangway, go, going, insect hole, inter row, mine, motion, moving, occasion, operation, pace, passage, path, progress, road, route, running, space between rows, the passage of time, time, tread, tunnel, vent, walk, walking, walkway, way, working). (various references)

Turkish		pasaj (alley, arcade, gangway, passage), koridor (aisle, corridor, hall, hallway, passage, vista), geçit (access, aisle, alley, alleyway, causeway, close, corridor, crossing, crossover, gangway, gap, gate, gateway, gorge, gullet, gut, parade, pass, passage, runway, Strait, thoroughfare, vestibule, walkway). (various references)

Ukranian		прохід (access, alleyway, canal, duct, gangway, orifice, pass, passover, thoroughfare, walkway), перепускний канал. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Swedish	1500-Modern	gatlopp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "passageway": passageways. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Passageway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Passereau. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-p-s-s-w-y"
	-3 letters: asswage, passage, seaways.
	-4 letters: agapae, seaway, swages.
	-5 letters: agape, apses, assay, essay, gapes, gases, gasps, gassy, gawps, gawsy, pages, pases, passe, peags, sagas, sages, spaes, spays, spews, swage, swags, swaps, sways, wages, wasps, waspy, yawps.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-p-s-s-w-y"
	+1 letter: passageways.
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