The Collaborative International Dictionary
Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. Foreign.]
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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.
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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.
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Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
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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, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc.
In doors, or Within doors, within the house.
Next door to, near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
--L'Estrange.Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
--Locke.To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.
To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
--Dryden.Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.
Usage examples of "without doors".
When I treated her, Melissa used to draw houses without doors and windows.
Again the walls ran without doors, to bring me into a circular room from which a stair climbed.
Her father had found it when he was younger, abandoned and about to be demolished, and he had woven it into the fabric of the House Without Doors.
I wish you would always hold your tongue in the house, and meddle only in matters without doors, which concern you.
Another scurrilous pamphlet, entitled 'A Word Without Doors,' was also aimed at him.
But by the second half of the session she found a theme that she stayed with: a series of houses without doors or windows.