Definition of Areaway

1. Noun. A passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement.

Generic synonyms: Passageway

Definition of Areaway

1. Noun. (North America) An outdoor passage offering access to a basement. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Areaway

1. a sunken area leading to a basement entrance [n -WAYS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Areaway

area vestibularis superior
areach
areached
areaches
areaching
aread
areading
areads
areae
areal
areal cover
areally
arear
areas
areata
areaways
areawide
areca
areca nut
arecaidine
arecaine
arecas
arecoline
arecolines
ared
aredd
arede
aredes
areding

Literary usage of Areaway

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1920)
"[SO OCA areaway about 16 or 18 inches below the surface of the ground, and that it built a coping along the edge of said areaway about 12 or 15 inches high, ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"Immediately to the west of this step was a cellar or areaway, three feet and one ... There were no barriers or railings around this areaway, and nothing to ..."

3. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1917)
"It was stated in the application that ''the drawings call for an areaway, ... This areaway would be located twenty-five feet from alley line on the Tenth ..."

4. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1903)
"That this hatchway, areaway, and entrance, at the time of the injury to ... That it was the duty of said defendant to have said hatchway, areaway, ..."

5. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1914)
"It is negligence on the part of the owner of an apartment house not to maintain a light at an areaway leading down to the janitor's door in the basement, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"It is for you to say under the evidence whether or not the balustrade maintained around the areaway referred to was reasonably sufficient to protect the ..."

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