Etimology
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”).
noun
door (plural doors)
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.
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
(immigration) An entry point.
(figurative) A means of approach or access.
(figurative) A possibility.
(figurative) A barrier.
(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
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.
Examples
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.
‘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.’
I knocked on the vice president's door
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
Learning is the door to wisdom.
to leave the door open
all doors are open to somebody
Keep a door on your anger.
The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
Related words
hyponyms
front door
plantation door
sliding door
meronyms
handle
latch
lock
verb
door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)
(transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Examples
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.