doorhandle

1. 1.

   a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain)

   Synonymsdoorknob

   Broaderknob

   Part ofexterior door

   United Kingdom

Other forms of doorhandle

plural

doorhandles·

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.

Questions about doorhandle

What does doorhandle mean?

doorhandle means "a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain)".

How many syllables are in doorhandle?

doorhandle has 3 syllables: door-han-dle. The stress falls on "door".

What is another word for doorhandle?

Close synonyms include doorknob. 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 doorhandle a common word?

doorhandle 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.