door
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
door/dɔː(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard.
- 2 the distance from one building to another: he lived two doors away.
– phrases
lay something at someone's door blame someone for something.
out of doors in or into the open air.
lay something at someone's door blame someone for something.
out of doors in or into the open air.
– derivatives
-doored adjective.
-doored adjective.
– origin OE duru, dor, of Gmc origin.
'door' also found in these Oxford entries:
air bridge
- ajar
- anacoluthon
- back door
- barn
- battering ram
- bobbin
- bolt
- carol singing
- casement
- casing
- catch
- close
- commissionaire
- communicate
- cupboard
- darken
- death
- deoch an doris
- dharna
- door frame
- door furniture
- doorknob
- doornail
- doorpost
- doorstep
- doorstop
- doorway
- dooryard
- double-fronted
- dripstone
- Dutch door
- embrasure
- entryphone
- escutcheon
- estate car
- fanlight
- fascia
- fingerplate
- fire door
- foot
- foreign
- frame
- French door
- frontispiece
- gable
- gull-wing
- gurdwara
- hack

