door

CEFRA1

/do(ː)ɹ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A movable barrier used to close an entrance.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A building with a door, especially a house.

Examples

  • Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.

  • She went into her room and shut the door behind her.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /dɔː/
  • /ɖoɾ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. 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.

  3. An entry point.

More examples

In context

  • Close the door when you leave.

  • I knocked on the vice president's door.

  • bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish, Norn, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dør (“door”), Swedish dörr (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (“outside”), Galician fóra (“outside”), Italian fuor...