FOLDING DOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does folding door mean? 

• FOLDING DOOR (noun)
  The noun FOLDING DOOR has 1 sense:

1. an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges)

  Familiarity information: FOLDING DOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLDING DOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

accordion door; folding door

Hypernyms ("folding door" is a kind of...):

interior door (a door that closes off rooms within a building)

 Context examples 

Mr. Brooke didn't even say, Thank you, but as he stooped for the unromantic tool, he kissed his little bride behind the folding door, with a look that made Aunt March whisk out her pocket handkerchief with a sudden dew in her sharp old eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had finished his professional commentary by flinging open a folding door, and ushering the party into a broad hall, which was filled with a great number of people who were waiting, like themselves, for an audience.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again, therefore, she applied herself to the key, and after moving it in every possible way for some instants with the determined celerity of hope's last effort, the door suddenly yielded to her hand: her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory, and having thrown open each folding door, the second being secured only by bolts of less wonderful construction than the lock, though in that her eye could not discern anything unusual, a double range of small drawers appeared in view, with some larger drawers above and below them; and in the centre, a small door, closed also with a lock and key, secured in all probability a cavity of importance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)