Dictionary

swinging door en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
   • Two barmaids who looked like mother and daughter hustled between the tables and shouted out lunch orders to the bartender who then shouted them through a swinging door door back to the kitchen. 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 31, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 162:
   • The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swinging door.

Forms

Hyponyms

double-hinged door · pivot door · double-action door

Synonyms

swing door

Translations (15)

de Schwingtür (door that can be opened from either side) · it porta a vento (door that can be opened from either side) · fi heiluriovi (door that can be opened from either side) · de Pendeltür (door that can be opened from either side) · cmn 擺動門 /摆动门 (door that can be opened from either side) · ko 여닫이문 (door that can be opened from either side) · bg летяща врата (door that can be opened from either side) · ga doras luascach (door that can be opened from either side) · ko 여닫이 (door that can be opened from either side) · de Flügeltür (door that can be opened from either side) · it porta a battente (door that can be opened from either side) · ru пендельтюр (door that can be opened from either side) · ga luascdhoras (door that can be opened from either side) · ja スイングドア (door that can be opened from either side) · sv svängdörr (door that can be opened from either side)