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say it: dawr
door is a noun meaning "a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
“he knocked on the door”
“he slammed the door as he left”
the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
“he stuck his head in the doorway”
a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
“the office next door”
“they live two doors up the street from us”
a room that is entered via a door
“his office is the third door down the hall on the left”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for door come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.