"car door" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: car doors [plural]
Etymology: 1863 (US, applied to “railway car”). Head templates: {{en-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). Wikipedia link: car door Categories (topical): Automotive, Rail transportation Synonyms: car-door, cardoor Related terms: butterfly door, carriage door [rail-transport, railways, 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): 車門 (Chinese Mandarin), 车门 (chēmén) (Chinese Mandarin), bildør (english: automobiles) [common-gender] (Danish), vogndør [common-gender, usually] [trains, railways, transport] (Danish), auton ovi [automobile, automotive, vehicles, transport] (Finnish), junan ovi (english: train) (Finnish), portière [feminine] (French), 車のドア (kuruma no doa) (Japanese), bildør [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bildør [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), portezuela [feminine] (Spanish), bildörr [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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