Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- a doorway: to go through the door.
- the building, house, etc., to which a door belongs: My friend lives two doors down the street.
- any means of approach, admittance, or access: the doors to learning.
- any gateway marking an entrance or exit from one place or state to another: at heaven’s door.
- lay at someone’s door, to hold someone accountable for; blame; impute.
- leave the door open, to allow the possibility of accommodation or change; be open to reconsideration: The boss rejected our idea but left the door open for discussing it again next year.
- lie at someone’s door, to be the responsibility of; be imputable to: One’s mistakes often lie at one’s own door.
- show someone the door, to request or order someone to leave; dismiss: She resented his remark and showed him the door.
pl n
- the. US rock group (1965–73), originally comprising Jim Morrison (1943–71), Ray Manzarek (1935–2013), Robby Krieger (born 1946), and John Densmore (born 1945)See also Morrison
noun
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- a hinged or sliding panel for closing the entrance to a room, cupboard, etc
- (in combination)doorbell; doorknob
- a doorway or entrance to a room or building
- a means of access or escapea door to success
- early doors British informal esp sport at an early stage
- lay at someone’s door to lay (the blame or responsibility) on someone
- out of doors in or into the open air
- show someone the door to order someone to leave
Middle English merger of Old English dor (neuter; plural doru) “large door, gate,” and Old English duru (fem., plural dura) “door, gate, wicket;” both from Proto-Germanic *dur- (cf. Old Saxon duru, Old Norse dyrr, Danish dør, Old Frisian dure, Old High German turi, German Tür).
The Germanic words are from PIE *dhwer- “a doorway, a door, a gate” (cf. Greek thura, Latin foris, Gaulish doro “mouth,” Gothic dauro “gate,” Sanskrit dvárah “door, gate,” Old Persian duvara- “door,” Old Prussian dwaris “gate,” Russian dver’ “a door”).
The base form is frequently in dual or plural, leading to speculation that houses of the original Indo-Europeans had doors with two swinging halves. Middle English had both dure and dor; form dore predominated by 16c., but was supplanted by door.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. [Ogden Nash]
see at death’s door; at one’s door; back door; beat a path to someone’s door; behind closed doors; close the door on; darken one’s door; foot in the door; keep the wolf from the door; lay at someone’s door; leave the door open; lock the barn door; next door to; open doors; open the door to; see someone out (to the door); show someone out (to the door); show someone the door.