door

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Meaning

1. 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.
2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
3. An entry point.
4. A means of approach or access.
5. A possibility.
6. A barrier.
7. A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
8. 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.

door

gate

doorway

entrance

opening

gateway

shutter

path

exit

entry

portal

room access

threshold

window

way

mouth

family

aperture

passageway

lid

residence

house

room

access

track

goal

way out

pyron

span

ashpit

cleanout door

soot door

gating waveform

geat

git

hilum

hilus

phylum

porta

doorway cover

slab

carve

carved wooden door

guardian

yard

shut the door

entryway

accommodation

diggings

domiciliation

flat

habitation

place

chamber

mansion

accession

admission

penetration

coast

course

itinerary

line

route

steps

avenue

drive

passage

road

roadway

pathways

home

sect

bulletin board

cover

wall

household

small door

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɔː/

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.