Usually means: Passage for walking on ship.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangway: Merriam-Webster
  2. gangway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gangway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gangway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gangway: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gangway, gangway: Wordnik
  7. Gangway, gangway, gangway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gangway: Wiktionary
  9. gangway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gangway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gangway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gangway, gangway: Dictionary.com
  13. gangway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gangway (band), Gangway (film), Gangway (magazine), Gangway (nautical), Gangway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gangway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gangway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gangway: Rhymezone
  18. gangway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gangway: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gangway: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gangway: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gangway: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. gangway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gangway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gangway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gangway: Legal dictionary

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  1. gangway: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gangway: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Gangway: Sports Definitions

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. GANGWAY: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Gangway: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
noun:  An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
noun:  A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
noun:  (rare, obsolete outside dialects) A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
noun:  (UK, Ireland) An aisle.
noun:  (nautical) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
noun:  (nautical) A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded.
noun:  (agriculture) An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
noun:  (Chicago) The narrow space between two buildings or houses, used to access the backyard/alleyway from the front.
noun:  A passageway through a passenger car
verb:  To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.

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