Read full poem →Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.
Dictionary Entry
The plural of 'door,' which is a movable barrier used to close an opening in a wall or other structure.
In a Sentence
“The students filed through the classroom doors after the bell rang.”
Origin
From Old English 'duru' or 'dor', related to Proto-Germanic '*durz*'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “doors”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →JOAN. There, you get in! you’ve prayed enough to-night. (_She goes to
close doors_)
Read full poem →These write to lords, some mean reward to get,
As needy beggars sing at doors for meat.
Those write because all write, and so have still
Read full poem →I shall not go away. My God, but you keep me starved! You write
`No Entrance Here', over all the doors. Is it not strange, my Dear,
that loving, yet you deny me entrance everywhere. Would marriage
Read full poem →I locked the doors, pulled the key and ran down to the
station. . .
Read full poem →At night thy husband clips[150] thee: I will weep
And to the doors sight of thyself [will] keep:
Then will he kiss thee, and not only kiss,
Read full poem →Of all his thoughts at once; but all in vain;
For, as we see at all the playhouse-doors,
When ended is the play, the dance, and song,
Read full poem →Toys, and light elegies, my darts I took,
Quickly soft words hard doors wide-open strook.
Verses reduce the hornËd bloody moon,