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avenue
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æv.??nju?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æv.??n(j)u/
- Hyphenation: av?e?nue
Noun
avenue (plural avenues)
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
- (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
Usage notes
Sometimes used interchangeably with other terms such as street. When distinguished, an avenue is generally broad and tree-lined. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south.
When abbreviated in an address (such as "Malcolm Ave" or "Fisher Av.") a capital "A" is normally used and a full stop (period) only used if "e" is not the last letter of the abbreviation.
In French traditionally used for routes between two places within a city, named for the destination (or formally where it is coming from), as in the archetypal Avenue des Champs-Élysées. This distinction is not observed in US English, where names such as “Fifth Avenue” are common. In British English, 'Avenue' is usually more associated with a tree-lined street and is sometimes named after the species of tree e.g. Acacia Avenue.
Synonyms
- (broad street): drive, boulevard
- (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation)
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av?ny/, [æv??ny]
Noun
avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)
- avenue
Inflection
References
- “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av.ny/
Noun
avenue f (plural avenues)
- avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
- (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
- (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
- (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)
Derived terms
- (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave
Adjective
avenue
- feminine singular of avenu
Further reading
- “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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door
English
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek ???? (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish ?????? (derge), derî, Persian ??? (dar), Russian ????? (dver?), Hindi ????? (dv?r) / ????? (dv?r), Armenian ???? (du?), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /d??/
- (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA(key): /d??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: d?r?, IPA(key): /do(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /do?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
- Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
- Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
door (plural doors)
- A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figuratively) A means of approach or access.
- Learning is the door to wisdom.
- (figuratively) A barrier.
- (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Meronyms
- handle
- latch
- lock
Hyponyms
- front door
- sliding door
Derived terms
Related terms
Meronyms
Translations
See also
- gate
Verb
door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)
- (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Translations
Anagrams
- Rood, odor, ordo, rood
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do?r/
- Hyphenation: door
- Rhymes: -o?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch d?re, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
Preposition
door
- through
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- He kicked the ball through the window.
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- because of, due to
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- by, by means of
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
- He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
Inflection
Synonyms
(because of):
- vanwege
Derived terms
Related terms
- door-
- door middel van
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
Adverb
door
- through
- forward, on
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- I'm now driving through the city.
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
door m (plural doren)
- (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
- Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!
- Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
Related terms
- dwaas
Anagrams
- oord, rood
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin dolor (“pain”), dol?ris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do.?o?/
Noun
door f (plural doores)
- pain
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
- ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar
- And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.
- ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
Related terms
- doorida, doorido
- doorosa
Descendants
- Galician: dor
- Portuguese: dor
- Kabuverdianu: dór
Scots
Alternative forms
- dour
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [du?r]
Noun
door (plural doors)
- door
Further reading
- “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Somali
Verb
door
- to choose
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