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door

/do(ː)ɹ/

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door noun: 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.

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Noun

door (plural doors)

  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.
    • bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door
    • I knocked on the vice president's door.
    Synonyms:
    gate, portal
  2. (in plural, metonymically) A building with a door, especially a house.
    • His house is three doors down.
    • He went five doors up the road to the bank.
    Synonyms:
    home, house, place
  3. Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.
    • cupboard door
    • the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
  4. (immigration) An entry point.
  5. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.
    • Learning is the door to wisdom.
  6. (figuratively) A possibility.
    • to leave the door open
    • all doors are open to somebody
  7. (figuratively) A barrier.
    • Keep a door on your anger.
  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.
    • The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

  1. (transitive) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
    • Kerr has acted for numerous clients who have been doored, including one man knocked off his bike and on to spiked railings, and another who ended up hitting a tree.2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got 'doored' while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    • He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

door meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

door in Hindi

portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
किवाड़ kivāṛ, दरवाज़ा darvāzā, द्वार dvār, दरवाजा darvājā, दर dar, प्रवेश praveś

door in Tamil

portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
கதவு katavu

door in Marathi

portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
दरवाजा darvājā, दार dār

door in Urdu

portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
دَرْوازَہ darvāza, دَر dar, باب bāb, دوار dvār
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door in Bengali
দরজা dorja, ফটক phoṭok, দ্বার dar, দুয়ার duẏar
door in Telugu
తలుపు talupu, ద్వారము dvāramu
door in Malayalam
വാതിൽ vātil, കതക് katakŭ, കവാടം kavāṭaṁ, പ്രവേശനമുഖം pravēśanamukhaṁ
door in Kannada
ಬಾಗಿಲು bāgilu
door in Punjabi
ਬੂਹਾ būhā, ਦਰਵਾਜ਼ਾ darvāzā, بُوہا būhā, دَرْوازَہ darvāza
door in Gujarati
બારણું bārṇũ, કમાડ kamāḍ, દરવાજો darvājo, દ્વાર dvār
door in Odia
କବାଟ kabāṭa, ଦ୍ୱାର dwāra
door in Sanskrit
द्वार् dvā́r, द्वार dvā́ra
door in Sinhala
දොර dora
door in Assamese
দুৱাৰ duar, দৰ্জা dorza
door in Nepali
द्वार dwār, ढोका ḍhokā
door in Pashto
ور, دروازه darwāza
door in Tagalog
pinto, pintuan
door in Arabic
أَبْوَاب ar, بَاب bāb, باب bāb
door in Malay
pintu
door in Indonesian
pintu
door in Persian
دَرْوازَه darwāza, دَر dar, باب bâb
door in Thai
ประตู bprà-dtuu
door in Vietnamese
cửa
door in Myanmar
ဒွာရ dwara.
Sindhi
دَروازو darvāzo
Kashmiri
دَروازٕ darvāzụ
Dzongkha
སྒོ sgo

Examples of door in a sentence

  • That's the door to the bathroom.
  • I caught my finger in the door.
  • You brought this problem to my door.
  • 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • I only opened the door a foot and put my head in.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  • We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D.2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:

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Synonyms of door

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Forms of door

Noun
pluraldoors
alternative form (obsolete)doore
alternative form (obsolete)durre
Verb
third-person singular presentdoors
present participledooring
past participledoored
pastdoored

Plural of door: doors

Origin of door

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, Norn, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dør (“door”), Swedish dörr (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (“outside”), Galician fóra (“outside”), Italian fuori (“outside”), Mirandese fuora (“outside”), Latin foris and foras (“outside”), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë (“door”), Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge, “door”), Northern Kurdish derî (“door”), Persian در (dar, “door”), Belarusian дзве́ры (dzvjéry, “door”), Bulgarian две́ри (dvéri, “royal doors”), Czech dveře (“door”), Latvian durvis (“door”), Lithuanian durys (“door”), Macedonian двер (dver, “door”), Polish drzwi (“door”), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Serbo-Croatian dvȇri (“door”), dvar...

Words formed from door

Phrases with door

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Questions about door

What does door mean?
Door means 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.
What is door in Hindi?
Door in Hindi is किवाड़ (kivāṛ), दरवाज़ा (darvāzā), द्वार (dvār). See Door meaning in Hindi.
How do you use door in a sentence?
That's the door to the bathroom.
What part of speech is door?
Door can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce door?
Door is pronounced /do(ː)ɹ/.
What is the plural of door?
The plural of door is doors.

Words near door in the dictionary

  1. doopiaja
  2. doopiajas
  3. doops
  4. dooputties
  5. dooputty
  6. door
  7. door alarm
  8. door bitch
  9. door bitches
  10. door chain
  11. door chains

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