Meaning

9 senses
  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.

    Tür, Türen, Türe

    дверьdverʹ, две́риdvéri

    две́ріdvéri

  2. (in the 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.

    a room that is entered via a door

  3. Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.

    cupboard door

    the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

  4. An entry point.

  5. (figuratively)A means of approach or access.

    Learning is the door to wisdom.

    anything providing a means of access (or escape)

  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.

Examples

8008 sentences
  1. Close the door when you leave.

    Зачини двері, коли будеш іти. — deniko

    ruЗакрой дверь, когда будешь уходить. — marafon

    deSchließ beim Hinausgehen die Türe. — MUIRIEL

  2. They forgot to lock the door.

    Вони забули замкнути двері. — deniko

    ruОни забыли запереть дверь. — ReggaeOn

    deSie haben vergessen, die Tür abzuschließen. — MUIRIEL

  3. I shut the door behind me.

    Я зачинив за собою дверi. — rmdas

    ruЯ закрыл за собой дверь. — paul_lingvo

  4. Would you please open the door?

    Не могли би ви відкрити двері? — deniko

  5. Do you mind opening the door?

    Ти не міг би відчинити двері? — deniko

    ruТы не будешь против, если открою дверь? — soweli_Elepanto

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle:
Русский
By meaning 1
portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle:

Origin

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-We

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”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: doors
Singulardoor
Pluraldoors

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close:doorwayroom accessthreshold

Word family

149 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • open the door
  • lock the door
  • the door open
  • close the door
  • door open
  • the front door
  • at the door
  • on the door
  • shut the door
  • the door and
  • front door
  • lives next door

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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