car door

English

Sliding car doors on a New York subway train

Alternative forms

• car-door
• cardoor

Etymology

1863 (US, applied to “railway car”).

Noun

car door (plural car doors)

1. (automotive, rail transport) A door designed for use on a car (whether a railway carriage or an automobile).
   • 1863, Gail Hamilton, Gala-Days, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 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

• butterfly door
• carriage door (rail transport)
• dihedral door
• gull-wing door
• jackknife door
• lambo door
• scissor door
• sliding door
• suicide door (colloquial)
• vertical door

 

Translations

door designed for use on a car

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車門 / 车门 (zh) (chēmén)

• Danish: bildør (da) c (automobiles), vogndør c (trains etc.)
• Finnish: auton ovi (automobile); junan ovi (train)
• French: portière (fr) f
• Japanese: 車のドア (kuruma no doa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bildør m or f

  Nynorsk: bildør f

• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: portezuela f
• Swedish: bildörr (sv) c

Anagrams

• Cordaro