areaway

areaway

English

Etymology

area +‎ way

Noun

areaway (plural areaways)

1. (Canada, US) An outdoor passage offering access to a basement.
   • 1922, Zane Grey, The Day of the Beast, New York: Harper, Chapter 7, p. 116,

     “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. […] ”

   • 1969, Hortense Calisher, The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 11, p. 307,

     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?”