firedoor
firedoor is the alternative spelling of fire door.
Meaning of fire door
Noun
fire door (plural fire doors)
- A fireproof door designed to stop fires spreading through buildings.
- There are 10,000 fire doors on the Elizabeth Line, including these two at Liverpool Street that have been tested to tolerate a two-hour blaze at temperatures as high as 3,000°C.2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “We're counting down the days”, in RAIL, number 953, page 39, photo caption
- The door of a furnace offering access to the fire inside.
Forms of firedoor
| plural | firedoors |
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Origin of firedoor
From fire + door.
Questions about firedoor
- What is firedoor the alternative spelling of?
- Firedoor is the alternative spelling of fire door.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: firedoor (page history and authors); fire door (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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