interior door
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- noun
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puerta interior
- As I stepped inside, Frank pulled open the steel interior door.
- open the interior door
- interior door panels
Examples
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Okay, so, this is the interior door of the office where Gina's body was found.
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The screen slapped shut behind me, followed quickly by the slam of the interior door.
Fiction book (1995) -
Adam and Ryan are staining the interior doors they stripped days earlier.
Fiction book (2001) -
Angie couldn't move until she hit the button to open the interior door.
Fiction book (1998) -
The moon doesn't penetrate this deeply into the building, and the only window is one above the interior door.
Blog text (23) -
The contractor installed a beautiful wooden interior door to replace the old, worn-out one between the kitchen and dining room.
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The office had a glass interior door that allowed natural light to flow between the conference room and the hallway.
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After moving into their new apartment, they painted the interior door to match the vibrant colors of their living room.
Synonyms
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A thing in a wall, building or vehicle that opens so people can go in and out
A door with vertical panels that fold together to save space
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a door inside a building' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'interior' (inside, inner) with 'door' (a barrier for entry). This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows ordinary adjective + noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Interior door names the simple image of a door that sits inside a building: the word interior points to being 'inside', so it is the door that divides rooms. Imagine a door between your bedroom and the hallway that you close to keep out noise and make the room private — that's why it means a door that separates rooms rather than one that goes 'outside'.