Definition of door

"door" in the noun sense

1. door

a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle

"he knocked on the door"

"he slammed the door as he left"

2. doorway, door, room access, threshold

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building the space that a door can close

"he stuck his head in the doorway"

3. door

anything providing a means of access (or escape

"we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"

"education is the door to success"

4. door

a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road

"the office next door"

"they live two doors up the street from us"

5. door

a room that is entered via a door

"his office is the third door down the hall on the left"

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Quotations for door

Sweep before your own door. [ Proverb ]

A gold key opens every door. [ Proverb ]

The back door robs the house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An open door may tempt a saint. [ Proverb ]

Idleness is the door to all vices. [ Malebranche ]

Obedience is the key to every door. [ George MacDonald ]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]

He must stoop that hath a low door. [ Proverb ]

Every dog is stout at his own door. [ Proverb ]

Most men have a thorn at their door. [ Proverb ]

And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]

The devil is not always at one door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air.
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore.
And breathed a perfume rare. [ George MacDonald ]

Enough to keep the wolf from the door. [ Proverb ]

To love the door, and leave the hatch. [ Proverb ]

The egotist is next door to a fanatic. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Slander expires at a good woman's door. [ Danish Proverb ]

The grave has a door on its inner side. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Where one door is shut, another is open. [ Proverb ]

Every door may be shut but death's door. [ Proverb ]

From a closed door the devil turns away. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Open not your door when the devil knocks. [ Proverb ]

Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door. [ Delaune ]

Everybody ought to sweep before his own door. [ French Proverb ]

He that brings a present finds the door open. [ Proverb ]

It is good to have a hatch before one's door. [ Proverb ]

God never shuts one door but He opens another. [ Irish Proverb ]

Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks.
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of Tomorrow creep. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. [ German Proverb ]

I have tipped the door-keeper (greased his paw). [ French Proverb ]

Go to another door, for this will not be opened. [ Proverb ]

Lying and stealing live next door to each other. [ Proverb ]

Sworn to no master, of no sect am I;
As drives the storm, at any door I knock,
And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. [ Pope ]

Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's door
Pours in the morning worshipper no more. [ Johnson ]

Locking the stable door when the steed is stolen. [ Proverb ]

When the steed is stole you shut the stable door. [ Proverb ]

An old man's staff is the rapper of death's door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Better once in heaven than ten times at the door. [ Dutch Proverb ]

He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news. [ Proverb ]

The old man's staff is the rapper at death's door. [ Proverb ]

When the barn's full, you may thresh before the door. [ Proverb ]

When the maid leaves open the door, blame not the cat. [ Proverb ]

Love comes in at the window and flies out at the door. [ Proverb ]

If you do not open the door to the devil, he goes away. [ Proverb ]

Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door. [ Turkish Proverb ]

Two daughters and a back door, are three arrant thieves. [ Proverb ]

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. [ Chamfort ]

Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

My money comes in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Proverb ]

In all thy quarrels, leave open the door of reconciliation. [ Old Persian Saying ]

Humble love, and not proud science keens the door of heaven. [ Young ]

Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door. [ Proverb ]

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is Experience. [ Bayard Taylor ]

When you enter into a house leave the anger ever at the door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a lackey comes to hell's door, the devils lock the gates. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. [ Prof. Jowett ]

When poverty comes in at the door, love creeps out at the window. [ Proverb ]

I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lies at my door. [ Proverb ]

Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house. [ Proverb ]

Going out into life - that is dying. Christ is the door out of life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Wouldst thou unlock the door to cold despair and knowing pensiveness? [ George Herbert ]

A strange ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to the door. [ Proverb ]

Women are demons that make us enter hell through the door of paradise.

The heart of a girl is like a convent: the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. [ James Hervey ]

There is an English song beginning, Love knocks at the door. He knocks less often than he finds it open. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The question is not at what door of fortune's palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? [ Burns ]

The daffodil is our door-side queen; she pushes up the sward already, to spot with sunshine the early green. [ Bryant ]

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. [ Alex. Dumas ]

As often as I come back to his door, his love met me on the threshold, and his noble serenity gave me comfort and peace. [ William Winter ]

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. [ Emerson ]

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty, that Vice can obtain a lodging. When he knocks at your door, be able to say, No room for your lordship, pass on! [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere. [ Epitaph ]

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]

There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]

If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, Think again, bat man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

door in Scrabble®

The word door is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters door:

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The 101 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In door

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door in Words With Friends™

The word door is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters door:

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DOOR
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Words within the letters of door

2 letter words in door (2 words)

3 letter words in door (1 word)

4 letter words in door (Anagrams) (3 words)

Word Growth involving door

Shorter words in door

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Longer words containing door

backdoor backdoored

backdoor backdooring

backdoor backdoors

barndoor barndoors

doorbell doorbells

doorcase doorcases

doored backdoored

doorframe doorframes

doorhandle doorhandles

doorhead doorheads

dooring backdooring

doorjamb doorjambs

doorkeeper doorkeepers

doorknob doorknobs

doorknock doorknocked

doorknock doorknocker doorknockers

doorknock doorknocking

doorknock doorknocks

doorlatch doorlatches

doorless

doorlike

doorlock doorlocks

doormaid doormaids

doormaker doormakers

doormaking

doorman

doormat doormats

doormen

doornail doornails

doorpiece

doorplate doorplates

doorpost doorposts

doors backdoors

doors barndoors

doors doorsill doorsills

doors doorstep doorstepped

doors doorstep doorstepper doorsteppers

doors doorstep doorstepping

doors doorstep doorsteps

doors doorstop doorstopper doorstoppers

doors doorstop doorstopping

doors doorstop doorstops

doors firedoors

doors indoors

doors opendoors

doors outdoors outdoorsman outdoorsmanship

doors outdoors outdoorsmen

doors outdoors outdoorswoman

doors outdoors outdoorswomen

doors outdoors outdoorsy

doors overdoors

doors trapdoors

doorway doorways

firedoor firedoors

indoor indoors

nextdoor

opendoor opendoors

outdoor outdoors outdoorsman outdoorsmanship

outdoor outdoors outdoorsmen

outdoor outdoors outdoorswoman

outdoor outdoors outdoorswomen

outdoor outdoors outdoorsy

overdoor overdoors

trapdoor trapdoors