areaway

noun

Etymology

From area + way.

  1. derived from *weǵʰ-
  2. inherited from *wegaz
  3. inherited from *weg
  4. inherited from weġ
  5. inherited from way
  6. compounded as areaway — “area + way

Definitions

  1. An outdoor passage offering access to a basement.

    • “I have three rooms here, and the back one opens into a kind of areaway from which I get into an abandoned storeroom, or I guess it’s an attic. […]”
    • At the basement door, which as in all these houses led out into the areaway below the front stoop, Krupong said, “Is there a toilet down here?”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA