doors

noun

plural of door
1
as in gates
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened we locked the door to the room so that no one could get in

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2
as in doorways
the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure a steady stream of visitors through the front door

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3
as in entrances
the means or right of entering or participating in education unlocks the door to advancement

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Recent Examples of doors Soleil’s Shimmering Body Oil, bridging makeup and fragrance, is the brand’s top-selling stock-keeping unit in specialty/multi doors. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 The drop count — or actual number of bodies through the doors — wound up being 12,166. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026 Rhimes moved her company’s home base to Netflix from Disney in 2017, about 18 months after Netflix threw open its doors to international business in January 2016. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 For families navigating school drop-offs, carpools, sports practices and road trips, sliding doors still beat long SUV doors in a crowded parking lot. — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026 The country star announced the news on social media hours before doors were set to open at the BOK Center. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026 A couple of doors down is another world-class vintage store, Meow. — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The outpost has welcomed 298 visitors from 26 countries since the doors swung open in 2000, by NASA’s count. — Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Inside the cabin, extensive additional sound deadening in the doors, trunk and wheel arches means phone calls and passenger conversations are entirely effortless at highway speeds. — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doors
  1. gates
  2. doorways
  3. entrances
  4. accesses
  5. keys
  6. accessions
  7. entries
  8. gateways
Noun
  • Digital media seemed to blow open the gates that limited participation, but a new class of gatekeepers arrived.
    — Seth Ashley, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Traditional computers build every calculation from a few simple logic gates, such as AND, OR and NOT.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of gates
Noun
  • All multi-floor buildings have elevators, and there are accessible guest rooms with mobility features and wide doorways.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies applied a stricter standard, looking for single-floor living, a no-step entrance and hallways and doorways wide enough for wheelchair access, and found fewer than 4% of homes qualified.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of doorways
Noun
  • Eight venues are interconnected by hidden passageways, secret entrances, and whimsical performances.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The airport had a heavy police presence, with all entrances blocked, and lights around the complex were dimmed.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of entrances
Noun
  • Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time).
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of accesses
Noun
  • The network starts out with random weights that produce unhelpful queries, keys, and values, and thus poor translations.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Its latest annual Gboard experiment flips this dynamic on its head with moving keys that eventually roll into position right under your finger.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • Now, not in pots as houseplants but growing in the ground on prominent public display, there are more than 200 accessions representing 46 species.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Definition of accessions
Noun
  • The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Five entries appearing in the notice refer to variations of his name and identify the same individual.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of entries
Noun
  • West Coast gateways gained share, while several East and Gulf Coast ports recorded declines.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The channel is one of the most crucial gateways for moving oil and gas out of the Gulf region.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
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“Doors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doors. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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