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Door

noun

A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle. "He slammed the door as he left"

The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close. Synonyms: doorway, room access, threshold.

Anything providing a means of access (or escape). "Education is the door to success"

A structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road). "They live two doors up the street from us"

A room that is entered via a door.

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"Door" Quotes from Famous Books

... Colonel Rhodes, and J. H. Hammond were put into one cell, twelve feet square, without windows, and were locked up there the first three nights for thirteen hours. Then the prison doctor insisted on more space being allotted to them, and the door, which communicated with a courtyard twenty feet square, was left open at night. This was the space in which they were permitted to take exercise. They were not allowed to associate with their fellows at first. In January, in Pretoria, the heat is intense, ...

— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) - From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum - of 9th Oct. 1899 • Louis Creswicke

... not draw. Some deep, wise instinct warned him to go slow. He knew the others would take their cue from him. If he threw down the gage of battle the room would instantly become a shambles. How many of them would again pass alive through the door nobody knew. He was a man who had fought often, but he could not quite bring himself to such a decision while those chilled-steel eyes bored into his. Anyhow, the game was not worth ...

— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... hour named, I made my appearance at Mr. Gryce's door. I found him awaiting me on ...

— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green

... I thought, as I turned the key in the door, and crossed the threshold of the Uninhabited House. "I must not begin with being chicken-hearted, or I may as well give up the ...

— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell

... building with its atmosphere of cheese and bacon. He would have been noticeably good-looking upon the cricket field or in any gathering of people belonging to the other side of life. Here he seemed almost a curiously incongruous figure. He passed through the glass-paned door and stood respectfully before his employer. Mr. Weatherley—it was absurd, but he scarcely knew how to make his suggestion—fidgetted for a moment and coughed. The young man, who, among many other quite unusual qualities, was possessed of a considerable ...

— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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