door

DOOR, noun [G., Gr.] 1. An opening or passage into a house, or other building, or into any room, apartment or closet, by which persons enter. Such a passage is seldom or never called a gate. 2. The frame of boards, or any piece of board or plank that shuts the opening of a house or closes the entrance into an apartment or any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges. 3. In familiar language, a house; often in the plural, doors. My house is the first door from the corner. We have also the phrases, within doors, in the house; without doors, out of the house, abroad. 4. Entrance; as the door of life. 5. Avenue; passage; means of approach or access. An unforgiving temper shuts the door against reconciliation, or the door of reconciliation. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John 10:1. A door was opened to me of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 2:12. To lie at the door in a figurative sense, is to be imputable or chargeable to one. If the thing is wrong, the fault lies at my door Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. Out of door or doors, quite gone; no more to be found. [Not now used.] In doors, within the house; at home.