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storm-door

storm-door is the dated form of storm door.

Meaning of storm door

Noun

storm door (plural storm doors)

  1. A door normally leading to a storm cellar, cellar or a basement, for protection from a tornado or a violent storm.
  2. A secondary door placed exterior to the primary door, to better weatherproof an entrance. Those storm doors that are also screen doors can be used for ventilation purposes when the primary door remains open. Typically found on front doors, rear doors, side doors, balcony doors.

Forms of storm-door

pluralstorm-doors

Questions about storm-door

What is storm-door the dated form of?
Storm-door is the dated form of storm door.

Words near storm-door in the dictionary

  1. storm-chaser
  2. storm-chasers
  3. storm-cloud
  4. storm-clouded
  5. storm-clouds
  6. storm-door
  7. storm-doors
  8. storm-hunter
  9. storm-hunters
  10. storm-petrel
  11. storm-petrels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storm-door (page history and authors); storm 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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