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ARCHWAY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passageway under a curved masonry construction

Example:

they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory

Synonyms:

arch; archway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("archway" is a kind of...):

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))

Holonyms ("archway" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

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 Context examples: 

I went up to my bedroom to change my wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscoted apartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, I remember), and the sedate immensity of the four-post bedstead, and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed to unite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on any such daring youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here, among pillows enough for six, I soon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancient Rome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches, rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream of thunder and the gods.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Instead of returning my Good morning with his usual affability, he looked at me in a distant, ceremonious manner, and coldly requested me to accompany him to a certain coffee-house, which, in those days, had a door opening into the Commons, just within the little archway in St. Paul's Churchyard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger—with a cricket bat in his hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)