'Gangway' definitions:
Definition of 'gangway'
(from WordNet)
noun
A temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site)
noun
noun
Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores [syn: aisle, gangway]
Definition of 'Gangway'
From: GCIDE
- Gangway \Gang"way`\, n. [See Gang, v. i.]
- 1. A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Naut.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway.
- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gangway'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- adit,
- air lock,
- approach,
- bascule bridge,
- bateau bridge,
- Bifrost,
- bridge,
- cantilever bridge,
- catwalk,
- corridor,
- drawbridge,
- entrance,
- entranceway,
- entry,
- entryway,
- floating bridge,
- flyover,
- footbridge,
- gangboard,
- gangplank,
- hall,
- in,
- ingress,
- inlet,
- intake,
- lift bridge,
- means of access,
- opening,
- overbridge,
- overcrossing,
- overpass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pontoon bridge,
- rope bridge,
- span,
- stepping-stone,
- stepstone,
- suspension bridge,
- swing bridge,
- toll bridge,
- vestibule,
- viaduct,
- way,
- way in