Other forms: hallways
A hallway is the narrow space just inside the front door that leads to the rooms. Down the hallway, a dark hallway, hallway light.
It is circulation space and it earns nothing, which is why architects try to minimise it and why estate agents rarely mention it. Hall is the older and shorter word in Britain, and hallway is more usual in America. Note that a hall was once the single great room of a house, which is the reverse of this.
1nounhallwayThe passage inside the front door leading to the rooms.
“Leave your wet boots in the hallway, please.”
hallway is a passage.
Also accepted in games: hall, corridor
Hall plus way. A hall was once the main room of a house, and the passage sense came later.
From hall + way.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA