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Doorway vs Doormat - What's the difference?

doorway | doormat |

As nouns the difference between doorway and doormat

is that doorway is the passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room while doormat is a coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

doorway

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

    • doormat

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia doormat) (en noun)
  • A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
    • Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
  • (figuratively) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
    • He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.