Word.ws English Dictionary

opened doors

opened doors is the simple past and past participle of open doors.

Meaning of open doors

Verb

open doors (third-person singular simple present opens doors, present participle opening doors, simple past and past participle opened doors)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To lead to opportunities or social advantages.
    • The training that opens doors for you that men from electrical trade schools can never pass.1926 September, Popular Mechanics, volume 46, number 3

Questions about opened doors

What is opened doors the simple past and past participle of?
Opened doors is the simple past and past participle of open doors.

Words near opened doors in the dictionary

  1. OpenDocument
  2. opened
  3. opened a can of whoop ass
  4. opened a can of whoop-ass
  5. opened a can of whup ass
  6. opened doors
  7. opened fire
  8. opened its doors
  9. opened one's big mouth
  10. opened one's bowels
  11. opened one's heart

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: opened doors (page history and authors); open doors (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “opened doors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/opened_doors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.