door

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English

Alternative forms

• doore, durre (obsolete)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /dɔː(ɹ)/
• (Standard Southern British) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /doː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /doɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA^(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /doə/
• (non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): /doʊ/
• (Yorkshire) IPA^(key): /dʊə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: d'or
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic)
• Homophone: dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: dough (dough–door merger)

Noun

door (plural doors)

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.
2. (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.
3. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

4. (immigration) An entry point.
5. (figurative) A means of approach or access.

6. (figurative) A possibility.

   to leave the door open

   all doors are open to somebody

7. (figurative) A barrier.

8. (computing, 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.

Hyponyms

• front door
• plantation door
• sliding door

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

Derived terms

Descendants

• Belizean Creole: doa
• Sranan Tongo: doro

Translations

See also

• gate

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

2. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Rood, ordo, oord, rood, O'Dor, odor

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːr/
• Hyphenation: door
• Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dōre, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

door

1. through

2. across, around (within a certain space)

3. because of, due to

   Synonyms: vanwege, ten gevolge van

4. by, by means of

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur
• Berbice Creole Dutch: doro
• Jersey Dutch: dœr
• Negerhollands: door
• Petjo: door
• Skepi Creole Dutch: door
• Sranan Tongo: doro
  • Aukan: doo
  • Kwinti: doo, doro
  • Saramaccan: dóu
  • → Kari'na: dorome
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhur, dhur-dhuran
• → Papiamentu: dor

Adverb

door

1. through
2. forward, on

3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)

4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)

5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôre, from Old Dutch *dōro, Proto-West Germanic *dauʀō, from Proto-Germanic *dauzô.

Noun

door m (plural doren)

1. (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
   • 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.

   Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot

Related terms

• dwaas

Anagrams

• oord, rood

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dolōrem m (“pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.ˈoɾ/

Noun

door f (plural doores)

1. pain
   • 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:

Related terms

• doorida, doorido
• doorosa

Descendants

• Galician: dor f
• Portuguese: dor f (see there for further descendants)

Scots

Alternative forms

• dour

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duːr]

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. door

Further reading

• “door”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Somali

Verb

door

1. to choose