areaway

English

Etymology

area +‎ way

Noun

areaway (plural areaways)

1. (Canada, US) An outdoor passage offering access to a basement.
   • 1922, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in The Day of the Beast‎^[1], New York: Harper, page 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, chapter 11, in The New Yorkers‎^[2], Boston: Little, Brown, page 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?”