Door
nounA hinged, sliding, or rotating barrier that opens and closes the entrance to a room, building, or vehicle.
How to spell door
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce door
What does door mean?
- nounA hinged, sliding, or rotating barrier that opens and closes the entrance to a room, building, or vehicle.
Door in a sentence
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She locked the front door before leaving for work.
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The delivery driver knocked on the back door twice.
Where does door come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word comes from Old English, where two closely related forms existed: 'duru', a feminine noun, and 'dor', a neuter noun, both naming the hinged barrier that closes an entrance. These trace back to a Proto-Germanic source seen in the German 'Tür' and Dutch 'deur', and ultimately to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'doorway' or 'gate', the same ancient root that gives Latin 'foris' (a door) and Greek 'thura'. Over the medieval period the two Old English forms blurred together into a single word, which helps explain why the modern spelling keeps the doubled 'oo' rather than a single vowel. The 'oo' here is one of English's tricky spellings because it does not sound like the long 'oo' in 'moon'; the related word 'floor' shares the same vowel pattern, which makes them easy companions to remember together.
How the word is built
- door (single Old English root: dor/duru, a hinged barrier; no prefix or suffix)
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