Other forms: doors
A door is what you open to walk into a room, and knock on first. Open the door, shut the door, the front door.
The compounds are everywhere: doorway, doorstep, doorbell, doorknob, doorframe. Next door means the building beside yours, and door to door means visiting every house in turn. The figurative uses are just as common: open doors for somebody, close the door on an idea, get a foot in the door. Note behind closed doors, meaning in private, and show somebody the door, meaning to make them leave.
1noundoorA movable barrier you open to enter a room or building.~93%
“The door sticks in wet weather and always has.”
2nounopportunityAn opportunity.~7%
“That course opened doors nobody expected.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 14 sentences found in the wild and placed 14 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
door is an entrance.
Old English duru goes back to a Proto-Indo-European root shared by Latin fores and Greek thyra. The English plural was originally used for a double door, which is why the word looks plural in some old texts.
Middle English
dore
English, today
door
Built from
From Middle English dore. 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”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA