door

Meaning

Noun

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. (in-plural, metonymically) A building with a door, especially a house.
3. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
4. An entry point.
5. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.
6. (figuratively) A possibility.
7. (figuratively) A barrier.
8. (dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
9. 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.

Synonyms

gate

doorway

entrance

gateway

opening

path

🛣️

shutter

entry

portal

family

👪

mouth

threshold

way

window

🪟

exit

room access

access

residence

house

🏠

aperture

room

lid

passageway

track

mansion

passage

pathways

penetration

phylum

place

road

🛣️

roadway

route

sect

slab

span

steps

wall

way out

yard

ashpit

shut the door

small door

geat

hilus

pyron

porta

cleanout door

soot door

gating waveform

Translations

porte

🚪

puerta

🚪

Tür

🚪

porta

porta

🚪

deur

🚪

porta

πόρτα

huis

🚪

θύρα

kapı

🚪

ianua

derî

🚪

ostium

🚪

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dore

Inherited from Old English: duru

Cognate with Scots: door

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Doore

Cognate with Western Frisian: doar

Cognate with Dutch: deur

Cognate with German: Tür

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: dør

Cognate with Icelandic: dyr

Cognate with Latin: foris

Cognate with Ancient Greek: θύρα

Cognate with Albanian: derë

Cognate with Central Kurdish: دەرگە

Cognate with Persian: در

Cognate with Russian: дверь

Cognate with Hindi: द्वार

Cognate with Armenian: դուռ

Cognate with Irish: doras

Cognate with Sanskrit: द्वार

Cognate with Lithuanian: durys

In summary

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.

Sentences

Would you show these gentlemen to the door .

As one door closes , another always opens .

He turned from the door and walked slowly toward the gate , still holding the keys in his hand .

Pitch the straw through the door of the stable .

He's watching the other door .

I didn't notice a lock on the door .