Definition of Door

n.1.An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead.
- Denham.
2.The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked.
- Spenser.
3.Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
- John x. 9.
4.An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street.
- Arbuthnot.
Blank door
(Arch.) etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc.
In doors
within the house.
Next door to
near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
- L'Estrange.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
- Locke.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
- Dryden.


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