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See also: döör, Döör, and door-

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Germanic *durz
Proto-West Germanic *dur
Old English duru
Middle English dore
English door

    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 fuori (“outside”), Mirandese fuora (“outside”), Latin foris and foras (“outside”), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë (“door”), Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge, “door”), Northern Kurdish derî (“door”), Persian در (dar, “door”), Belarusian дзве́ры (dzvjéry, “door”), Bulgarian две́ри (dvéri, “royal doors”), Czech dveře (“door”), Latvian durvis (“door”), Lithuanian durys (“door”), Macedonian двер (dver, “door”), Polish drzwi (“door”), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Serbo-Croatian dvȇri (“door”), dvar (“door”), Ukrainian две́рі (dvéri, “door”), Hindi द्वार (dvār, “door”), Armenian դուռ (duṙ, “door”), Irish doras (“door”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra, “door”).

    Despite similarities in spelling, not cognate with Dutch door, which is instead cognate with English through.

    A door
    A wooden door

    Pronunciation

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    enPR: dōr (without the horse–hoarse merger)

    enPR: dō (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger but with the dough–door merger)

    enPR: dôr (rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

    enPR: dô (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

    enPR: do͝or

    Noun

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    door (plural doors)

    1. (architecture) 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.
      Hypernym: doorway
      Hyponyms: back door, barn door, car door, front door, plantation door, revolving door, screen door, side door, sliding door, storm door
      Meronyms: doorlite, handle, hinge, jamb, knob, latch
      Near-synonyms: gate, portal
      bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door
      I knocked on the vice president's door.
      That's the door to the bathroom.
      I caught my finger in the door.
      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
        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.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
        ‘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.’
    2. (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.
      Synonyms: home, house, place
      His house is three doors down.
      He went five doors up the road to the bank.
      You brought this problem to my door.
      • 2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:
        We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz.
      • 2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:
        "...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."
      • 2024 March 26, Julia Dahl, Run You Down: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
        A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan.
    3. Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.
      cupboard door
      the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
    4. (immigration) An entry point.
    5. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
      Learning is the door to wisdom.
    6. (figurative) A possibility.
      to leave the door open
      all doors are open to somebody
    7. (figurative) A barrier.
      Keep a door on your anger.
    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.
    Parts of doors (six panel)

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Belizean Creole: doa
    • >? Sranan Tongo: doro
    • Tok Pisin: dua
    • → Middle Scots: dore, doore

    Translations

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    portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
    immigration: entry point

    Verb

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    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.
      • 2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got 'doored' while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 August 2023:
        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.
      • 2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star‎[2], Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2024:
        He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.
      • 2023 December 19, Angie Orellana Hernandez, “Being doored to death is a cyclist's nightmare. How can it be prevented?”, in Los Angeles Times‎[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2024:
        To avoid being doored, cyclists such as Vilain, Davis-Overstreet and Michael Schneider monitor as many telltale signs as possible: shadows, brake lights, the actions of people sitting in the driver's seat.

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    Dutch

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    Pronunciation

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    Etymology 1

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

      Preposition

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      door

      1. through
        Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
        He kicked the ball through the window.
      2. across, around (within a certain space)
        Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
        Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
      3. because of, due to
        Synonyms: vanwege, ten gevolge van
        Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
        Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
      4. by, by means of
        Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
        He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
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      Pronominal adverbs of door
      preposition door
      postpositional adv. door
      + het (it) erdoor
      + dit (this) hierdoor
      + dat (that) daardoor
      + wat (what) waardoor
      + iets (something) ergens door
      + niets (nothing) nergens door
      + alles (everything) overal door
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      Adverb

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      door

      1. through
      2. forward, on
        Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
        Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
      3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
        Ik rijd nu de stad door.
        I'm now driving through the city.
      4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
        Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
        Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
      5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
        Zij kon geen maaltijd meer binnenhouden en moest de hele dag door kleine beetjes eten.
        She was unable to keep a meal in her stomach anymore and had to eat little snacks throughout the day.
        Het hele jaar door waren er problemen met hooligans.
        There were problems with hooligans all year round.
        De kinderen waren de hele vakantie door in het zwembad te vinden.
        The children could be seen at the swimming pool throughout the holidays.
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      Etymology 2

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

        Noun

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        door m (plural doren, no diminutive)

        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.
            Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
          Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot
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        Old Galician-Portuguese

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        FWOTD – 14 October 2012

        Etymology

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          Inherited from Latin dolōrem (“pain”).

          Pronunciation

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          Noun

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          door f (plural doores)

          1. pain
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          Descendants

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

          Scots

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          Etymology

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          Inherited from Middle Scots dore, doore, from Early Modern English doore, from Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.

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          Noun

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          door (plural doors)

          1. door

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          Verb

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          dòor

          1. (transitive) to choose

          Inflection

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          Conjugation of door
          Imperative
          present
          singular door
          plural doora
          Infinitive
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          t
          Indicative
          present past future
          simple continuous simple continuous habitual simple
          singular 1st dooraa {{{4}}}ayaa dooray {{{4}}}ayay t jiray t doonaa
          2nd aa taysaa ay {{{4}}}aysay t jirtay t doontaa
          3rd m dooraa {{{4}}}ayaa dooray {{{4}}}ayay t jiray t doonaa
          f aa {{{4}}}aysaa ay {{{4}}}aysay t jirtay t doontaa
          plural 1st {{{4}}}naa {{{4}}}aynaa {{{4}}}nay {{{4}}}aynay t jirnay t doonnaa
          2nd aan {{{4}}}aysaan een {{{4}}}ayseen t jirteen t doontaan
          3rd dooraan {{{4}}}ayaan dooreen {{{4}}}ayeen t jireen t doonaan
          Subjunctive
          present past future
          simple continuous simple continuous habitual simple
          singular 1st dooro {{{4}}}ayo doorayn doorin t jirin t doono
          2nd o {{{4}}}ayso t doonto
          3rd m dooro {{{4}}}ayo t doono
          f o {{{4}}}ayso t doonto
          plural 1st {{{4}}}no {{{4}}}ayno t doonno
          2nd aan {{{4}}}aysaan t doontaan
          3rd dooraan {{{4}}}ayaan t doonaan
          Independent
          past
          simple
          singular 1st dooray
          2nd ay
          3rd m door
          f ay
          plural 1st dooray
          2nd e
          3rd doore

          Derived terms

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          • iidoor (“exchange, Isaaq clan”)

          References

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          • “door”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012
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