door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: dōr
note: rhotic
ipa: /do(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /doə/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /ɖoɾ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger but with the dough–door merger
enpr: dō
homophone: dough
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /doʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖo/
note: rhotic, horse–hoarse merger
enpr: dôr
homophone: d'or
ipa: /doɹ/
note: non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger
enpr: dô
homophone: d'or
homophone: daw
ipa: /dɔː/
ipa: /doː/
enpr: do͝or
ipa: /dʊə/
homophone: dour (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: doors
form: doore
form: durre
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.
Senses: examples: text: I knocked on the vice president's door.
text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘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.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: 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.
examples: text: His house is three doors down.
text: He went five doors up the road to the bank.
text: We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz.
ref: 2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:
text: "...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."
ref: 2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:
text: A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan.
ref: 2024 March 26, Julia Dahl, Run You Down: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
glosses: A building with a door, especially a house.
examples: text: the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
glosses: Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
qualifier: immigration
glosses: An entry point.
examples: text: Learning is the door to wisdom.
glosses: A means of approach or access.
examples: text: to leave the door open
text: all doors are open to somebody
glosses: A possibility.
examples: text: Keep a door on your anger.
glosses: A barrier.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
examples: text: The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
glosses: 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.
Hyponyms: front door
plantation door
sliding door
Meronyms: word: handle
word: latch
word: lock
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: 1st mullion
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: bottom rail
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: casing
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: cross rail
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: frame
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: glazing
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: lite
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: lock rail
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: lock set
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: lock style
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: panel
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: second mulion
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: sticking
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: third mullion
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: top rail
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: witness line
sense: Parts of doors (six panel)
word: witness panel
Derived terms: a creaking door hangs longest
a creaking door hangs long on its hinges
a golden key can open any door
air 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
attic door
automatic door
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
barndoor
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 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
dock door
dog door
doggie door
don't let the door hit you on the way out
door alarm
door-bell
doorbell
door bitch
door brake
doorbuster
doorbusting
doorcase
door chain
doorcheek
door close
door closer
Door County
door drawer
door entry system
doorflap
door frame
doorframe
door-frame
door game
doorgame
door god
door handle
doorhanger
door hinge
door-in-the-face technique
doorjamb
doorkeeper
door-keeper
door-knob
door knob
doorknob
doorknock
doorknocker
door knocker
doorlatch
doorleaf
doorless
doorlike
doorline
doormaid
doormaker
doormaking
doorman
doormat
door-mat
door money
door-nail
door nail
doornail
door open
door opener
doorperson
door phone
doorphone
doorplate
door plug
doorpost
door-post
door prize
door-prize
door pump
door seal
doorside
doorsill
doorslab
doorslam
doorsman
door snail
doors of perception
doorstaff
doorstead
doorstep
doorstone
doorstop
doorstopper
door to door
door-to-door
doorwall
doorward
doorwards
doorway
doorweed
door wench
doorwise
doorwoman
dooryard
double door
double doors
Dutch door
early door
early doors
fairy door
firedoor
fire door
five-door
foot-in-the-door technique
foredoor
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
half-door
house door
house-door
ice delivery door
ice door
in church every time the doors are open
indoor
in-doors
Jack out of doors
jib door
Katy bar the door
keep the wolf from the door
key of the door
key to 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
lay something at the door of
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
milk delivery door
milk door
multidoor
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
outdoor
out-of-door
out-of-doors
out of doors
overdoor
panic door
patio door
pet door
platform door
platform edge door
platform screen door
plug door
pocket door
poor door
push against an open door
revolving door
revolving door syndrome
revolving-door syndrome
sash door
scissor door
screen door
screen-door effect
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
stagedoor
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
three-door
trap-door
trapdoor
trap door
up and over door
video door entry
video door-phone
when one door closes, another opens
with closed doors
within-doors
without-door
withoutdoors
wolf at the door
your barn door is open
Related terms: gate