Synonyms:
arch, archway
Meaning: a passageway under a curved masonry construction; "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory"
Usage examples
In the archway where Miss Bryant stood seven people were shot dead, among them two little boys.
Half a minute conducted them through the Pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped.
Then, so suddenly that it quite startled the childish voyagers, the boat glided from the archway into the most beautiful country one could imagine.
The memorial church, with its twelve marble figures of the apostles, each weighing two tons, was badly injured by the fall of its Gothic spire, which crashed through the roof and demolished much of the interior; the great entrance archway was split in twain and wrecked; so, too, were the library, the gymnasium and the power house.