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A door 
A wooden door
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /dɔː/
- (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA(key): /dɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /doə/
- (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA(key): /doʊ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: d'or
- Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand; non-rhotic New York))
- Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
- Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern US))
Noun
door (plural doors)
- A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- I knocked on the vice president's door
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figurative) A means of approach or access.
- Learning is the door to wisdom.
- (figurative) A possibility.
- to leave the door open
- all doors are open to somebody
- (figurative) A barrier.
- Keep a door on your anger.
- (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
- The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
- The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Parts of doors (six panel)
Derived terms
- a creaking door hangs longest
- a creaking door hangs long on its hinges
- a golden key can open any door
- ashdump door
- at church every time the doors are open
- at church every time the doors swing open
- at death's door
- at Death's door
- at someone's door
- at the door
- at the door of
- back door
- back-door pilot
- baize door
- bang down the door
- bang like a dunny door
- bang like a dunny door in a gale
- bang like a shithouse door
- bang on the door
- bang the door down
- barn door
- barn doors
- beat Jack out of doors
- beat my neighbour out of doors
- beat your neighbour out of doors
- behind closed doors
- blower door
- blow the doors off
- boy-next-door
- boy next door
- butterfly door
- car door
- carriage door
- cat door
- cellar door
- cellar-door
- central door locking
- check at the door
- church-door
- church door
- clack door
- closed door
- close one's doors
- close one's doors
- close the door
- close the door on
- close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- darken a church door
- darken someone's door
- dead door
- death door
- dog door
- doggie door
- don't let the door hit you on the way out
- door-bell
- door bitch
- door brake
- door chain
- door closer
- Door County
- door drawer
- door frame
- door-frame
- doorgame
- door game
- door god
- door handle
- door hinge
- door-in-the-face technique
- door-keeper
- door-knob
- door knob
- door knocker
- doorman
- door-mat
- door money
- door nail
- door-nail
- door opener
- door phone
- door plug
- door-post
- door prize
- door prize
- door-prize
- door pump
- door seal
- doorsill
- door snail
- doors of perception
- doorstep
- doorstop
- door to door
- door-to-door
- doorway
- door wench
- double door
- double doors
- Dutch door
- early door
- early doors
- fairy door
- fire door
- foot-in-the-door technique
- four-door
- four door house
- French door
- funeral door
- garage door
- garage door opener
- gentleman of the back door
- get one's foot in the door
- get the door
- girl-next-door
- girl next door
- glass-door
- glass door
- go in the out door
- green door
- house door
- house-door
- in church every time the doors are open
- in-doors
- Jack out of doors
- jib door
- Katy bar the door
- keep the wolf from the door
- kick at an open door
- kicking at an open door
- kitty bar the door
- knicky-knocky-nine-doors
- knock at the door
- knock at the door of
- knocking on heaven's door
- knock on heaven's door
- knock on the door of
- Lamborghini door
- lay at someone's door
- leave at the door
- leave the door open
- let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
- lie at one's door
- lie at someone's door
- make a better door than a window
- next-door
- next door
- nicky-nicky-nine-doors
- one's door is open
- on the door
- open-door
- open door
- open-door policy
- open door policy
- open doors
- open its doors
- open the door
- opportunity knocks at every man's door
- out-of-door
- out-of-doors
- out of doors
- patio door
- pet door
- platform edge door
- platform screen door
- plug door
- pocket door
- push against an open door
- revolving door
- revolving door syndrome
- revolving-door syndrome
- sash door
- scissor door
- screen door
- show somebody the door
- show someone the door
- shut the door
- shut the door on
- shut the front door
- slam-door, slam door
- slam the door
- slam the door on
- sporting door
- stage door
- stage-door Johnny
- storm door
- storm-door
- suicide door
- swing door
- swinging door
- swinging-door chad
- text door neighbour
- the wolf is at the door
- trap-door
- trap door
- up and over door
- when one door closes, another opens
- with closed doors
- within-doors
- without-door
- wolf at the door
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: doro
Translations
portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
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any flap that opens like a door
computing: software mechanism for interacting with a remotely running program
See also
Verb
door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)
- (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Translations
to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch dōre, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
Preposition
door
- through
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- He kicked the ball through the window.
- across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- because of, due to
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
- by, by means of
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
- He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
Inflection
Pronominal adverbs of door
Synonyms
(because of):
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
- Berbice Creole Dutch: doro
- Jersey Dutch: dœr
- Negerhollands: door
- Petjo: door
- Skepi Creole Dutch: door
- Sranan Tongo: doro
- → Caribbean Javanese: dhur, dhur-dhuran
- → Papiamentu: dor
Adverb
door
- through
- forward, on
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
- (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- I'm now driving through the city.
- (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
- Zij kon geen maaltijd meer binnenhouden en moest de hele dag door kleine beetjes eten.
- She was unable to keep a meal in her stomach anymore and had to eat little snacks throughout the day.
- Het hele jaar door waren er problemen met hooligans.
- There were problems with hooligans all year round.
- De kinderen waren de hele vakantie door in het zwembad te vinden.
- The children could be seen at the swimming pool throughout the holidays.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch dôre, from Old Dutch *dōro, Proto-West Germanic *dauʀō, from Proto-Germanic *dauzô.
Noun
door m (plural doren)
- (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
- Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
Related terms
Anagrams
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin dolōrem m (“pain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
door f (plural doores)
- pain
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
- ⁊ untou lle bẽ a chaga / ⁊ perdeu Log a door. / ⁊ poſſ el a ſua mão. / ben firme en ſeu logar
- And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
Related terms
Descendants
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.
Pronunciation
Noun
door (plural doors)
Further reading
- “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Somali
Verb
door
- to choose