door latch

1. 1.

   spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key

   Synonymslatch

   Broaderlock

Questions about door latch

What does door latch mean?

door latch means "spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key".

What is another word for door latch?

Close synonyms include latch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is door latch a common word?

door latch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.