Other forms: passageways
A passageway is a narrow way leading between rooms or buildings. A dark passageway, down the passageway, a covered passageway.
It is a route rather than a room, so nothing happens in it except getting from one place to another. The word suits old buildings and back streets more than modern plans.
1nounpassagewayA narrow way leading between rooms or buildings.
“A passageway ran from the kitchen out to the yard.”
passageway is a way.
Passage plus way; passage comes from Old French passer, to pass, from Latin passus, a step.
From passage + way.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA