door

• doore, durre (obsolete)

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”).

A door

A wooden door

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /dɔː/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /dɔɹ/
• (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, AAVE) IPA^(key): /doʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
• Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
• Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern US))

door (plural doors)

1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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:

     ‘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.’

   I knocked on the vice president's door

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

   the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

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

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figurative) A possibility.

   to leave the door open

   all doors are open to somebody

6. (figurative) A barrier.

   Keep a door on your anger.

7. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
8. 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"

• front door
• plantation door
• sliding door

• handle
• latch
• lock

• Sranan Tongo: doro

• gate

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

1. (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 The Guardian‎:

     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.

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood

• IPA^(key): /doːr/

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• Hyphenation: door
• Rhymes: -oːr

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

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

   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.

(because of):

• vanwege

• door-
• door middel van

• 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
  • → Galibi Carib: dorome
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhur, dhur-dhuran
• → Papiamentu: dor

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.

• Afrikaans: deur

From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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.

     Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!

   Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot

• dwaas

• oord, rood

From Latin dolor (“pain”), dolōris.

• IPA^(key): /do.ˈoɾ/

door f (plural doores)

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

     ⁊ untou lle bẽ a chaga / ⁊ perdeu Log a door. / ⁊ poſſ el a ſua mão. / ben firme en ſeu logar

     And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.

• doorida, doorido
• doorosa

• Galician: dor
• Portuguese: dor
  • Kabuverdianu: dór

• dour

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

• IPA^(key): [duːr]

door (plural doors)

1. door

• “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

door

1. to choose