exterior door
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- noun
- /ɪkˈstɪr.i.ər dɔr/
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puerta exterior
- On Monday the 23rd, a resident of 6th Avenue between Dean and Bergen Streets attended the monthly meeting of the Dean Street Block Association and regaled those in attendance with stories of rats attempting to chew through an exterior door and expressed anxiety about walking home alone after dark due to the infestation.
- exterior door locks
- close all exterior doors
- open the exterior door
Let's put that right above our door, like our exterior door.
- Let's put that right above our door, like our exterior door.
Examples
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During the storm, we kept the exterior doors securely closed to prevent the wind from entering.
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All exterior doors will be locked according to winterize procedures.
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We made hardware parts in our plant: seat mounts/adjusters, interior and exterior door handles, body side moldings, side vent windows, and that sort of thing.
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This atrium has two exterior doors on opposite sides, so I turn around ready to walk toward the other door to leave, but another receipt checker has walked up at this time.
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Very shortly after I turned our alarm on and left our home, our glass back door was broken—the exterior door leading to our bedroom—the 1/4 inch, super thick glass door we had to take advantage of the beautiful view from our yard.
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A neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, residents along the streets closest to New York Harbor were checking sump pumps in their basements and piling sandbags against exterior doors.
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The contractor installed three new exterior doors to improve the building's insulation.
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Please make sure all exterior doors are locked before leaving the house for vacation.
Synonyms
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A door or opening that lets people go into a place
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An opening or door used to go into a building
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A small area inside a building next to the front door where people enter
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A space at the front of a building where people enter
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A door that leads from a building to the outside
Antonyms
How Outside
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a door that provides entrance to or exit from the outside of a building' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'exterior' (outside) with 'door' (an entry/exit barrier). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is a common, literal construction in English (and in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The compound noun exterior door comes from the simple image of a door that opens to the exterior, the 'outside' of a building. So, it means 'a door that leads to or from the outside'.