car door

English

Sliding car doors on a New York subway train

Alternative forms

car-door

Etymology

1863 (US, applied to “railway car”).

Noun

car door (plural car doors)

(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, 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

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 (zh), 车门 (zh) (chēmén)
Finnish: auton ovi
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

Anagrams

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