door
Plural: doors
Noun
- A movable barrier that opens and closes an entrance.
- a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- "he knocked on the door"
- "he slammed the door as he left"
- the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- "he stuck his head in the doorway"
- anything providing a means of access (or escape)
- "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"
- "education is the door to success"
- a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
- "the office next door"
- "they live two doors up the street from us"
- a room that is entered via a door
- "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"
- 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.
- A building with a door, especially a house.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- An entry point.
- A means of approach or access.
- A possibility.
- A barrier.
- 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.
Verb
- To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Examples
- all doors are open to somebody
- He left the door open for a high-scoring play by leaving a vowel exposed.
- He went five doors up the road to the bank.
- His house is three doors down.
- I knocked on the vice president's door.
- Keep a door on your anger.
- Learning is the door to wisdom.
- the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
- The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
- to leave the door open
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 5
door: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddoor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
door: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary