door – English noun declension

English noun forms of door

Noun: door
Singulardoor
Pluraldoors

Sample Sentences

  • bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door
  • I knocked on the vice president's door.
  • That's the door to the bathroom.
  • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • His house is three doors down.
  • He went five doors up the road to the bank.
  • You brought this problem to my door.
  • We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz. [2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:]
  • "...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right." [2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:]
  • A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan. [2024 March 26, Julia Dahl, Run You Down: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:]
  • cupboard door
  • the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
  • Learning is the door to wisdom.
  • to leave the door open
  • all doors are open to somebody
  • Keep a door on your anger.
  • The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old English duru
3. Middle English dore
4. English door
5. From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
6. Cognates
7. Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish, Norn, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dør (“door”), Swedish dörr (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (“outside”), Galician fóra (“outside”), Italian fuori (“outside”), Mirandese fuora (“outside”), Latin foris and foras (“outside”), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë (“door”), Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge, “door”), Northern Kurdish derî (“door”), Persian در (dar, “door”), Belarusian дзве́ры (dzvjéry, “door”), Bulgarian две́ри (dvéri, “royal doors”), Czech dveře (“door”), Latvian durvis (“door”), Lithuanian durys (“door”), Macedonian двер (dver, “door”), Polish drzwi (“door”), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Serbo-Croatian dvȇri (“door”), dvar (“door”), Ukrainian две́рі (dvéri, “door”), Hindi द्वार (dvār, “door”), Armenian դուռ (duṙ, “door”), Irish doras (“door”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra, “door”).
8. Despite similarities in spelling, not cognate with Dutch door, which is instead cognate with English through. See: Middle English Nouns 'dore', Old English Nouns 'duru', Dutch Nouns 'deur', German Nouns 'Tür', Swedish Nouns 'dörr', Latin Nouns 'foris', Ancient Greek Nouns 'θύρα', Czech Nouns 'dveře', Latvian Nouns 'durvis', Polish Nouns 'drzwi', Russian Nouns 'дверь', Irish Nouns 'doras'.

Verbs referencing "door"

Russian Nouns дверь, German Nouns Tür, Latin Nouns foris, Ancient Greek Nouns θύρα, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns dør.