car door

English

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Alternative forms

• car-door

Etymology

1863 (US, applied to “railway car”).

Noun

car door (plural car doors)

1. A door designed for use on a car.
   • 1863, Gail Hamilton, Gala-Days, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p 22:

     We found Jeru to be a pleasant city; with only one fault: the inhabitants will crowd into a car before passengers can get out; consequently the heads of the two columns collide near the car-door, and there is a general choke.

Related terms

• gull-wing door
• scissor door, jackknife door, lambo door
• suicide door (colloquial)
• butterfly door, vertical door, dihedral door

Translations

door designed for use on a car

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車門 (cmn), 车门 (cmn) (chēmén)

• Finnish: auton ovi
• French: portière (fr) f