breezeway

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English breeze

Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *wegaz

Proto-West Germanic *weg

Old English weġ

Middle English wey

English way

English breezeway

From breeze + way.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiːzˌweɪ/

Noun

breezeway (plural breezeways)

1. A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings.

   One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons.

   • 2020 March 3, “Tornado Safety”, in WHAS-TV‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 April 2023:

     If you are on a higher level and can't get to a lower apartment, hunker down in the breezeway of the apartment building

2. (Mid-Atlantic US) The space between two groups of rowhouses in the middle of a city block.

Hyponyms

• dogtrot (“the central breezeway within a dogtrot house”)

See also

• wind tunnel