door

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle

   I knocked on the door.

2. 2
   noun

   a room that is entered via a door

   My office is the third door down the hall on the left.

3. 3
   noun

   a structure where people live or work, usually ordered along a street or road

   We often go to lunch with the workers from the office next door.

4. 4
   noun

   the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building

   the space that a door can close

5. 5
   noun

   anything providing a means of access (or escape)

   we closed the door to Haitian immigrants

6. 6
   noun

   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.

   I knocked on the vice president's door.

7. 7
   noun

   A building with a door, especially a house.

   His house is three doors down.

8. 8
   noun

   Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

   the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

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”). 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, and Norwegian dør (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese, and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (…