SIDE DOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does side door mean? 

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

1. an exterior door at one side of a building

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDE DOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exterior door at one side of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

side door; side entrance

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

exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)

 Context examples 

A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I recognised in an instant that the thief must have come up the stairs from the side door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“As a matter of fact, he could not,” said Soames, “for I entered by the side door.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some one had opened the side door, and we found ourselves in the kitchen garden, where, clustering upon the gravel path, we were able to hold the lamp over the soft, newly turned earth which lay between us and the window.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Next day, having seen both the old and young gentleman out of the house, Beth, after two or three retreats, fairly got in at the side door, and made her way as noiselessly as any mouse to the drawing room where her idol stood.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out at a side door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This second one leads by means of a second small stair to a side door, used by servants, and also as a short cut by clerks when coming from Charles Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)