Definitions for areaway

areaway ar·e·a·way

Spelling: [air-ee-uh-wey]
IPA: /ˈɛər i əˌweɪ/

Areaway is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in areaway (aaaerwy).

Definitions for areaway

noun

  1. a sunken area leading to a cellar or basement entrance, or in front of basement or cellar windows.
  2. a passageway, especially one between buildings.

Origin of areaway

An Americanism dating back to 1895-1900; area + way1

Examples for areaway

The android, seeing his escape cut off, veered into an areaway.

A lame boy was looking through the iron fence of the areaway.

The large car was puffing impatiently to be on the road, when a gayly bedecked personage emerged from the areaway.

While I was running through the areaway I shouted to the actresses.

Mrs. Schrimm said as she bustled out to the areaway and slammed the door.

Inside, he locked the door and lowered the shade of the single window which looked out on an areaway.

Ten minutes later Mrs. Zwiebel recognized with a leaping heart his footsteps on the areaway.

The man skidded on the filthy alley surface as he turned into the areaway.

Let's jump down, run alongside the house by the areaway, and get out on the street.

He was loitering opposite in the areaway of an empty residence.

Word Value for areaway
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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