Emily Dickinson Lexicon

door (-s), n. [OE duru.] (webplay: abroad, apartment, approach, building, chargeable, closes, enter, forgiving, gate, hinges, home, house, imputable, lie, Lord, man, next, opening, passage, room, saved, shuts, turning).

1. Entrance; [metonymy] house; home; habitation; location; dwelling place.
2. Ingress; means of approach; place of greeting; position of invitation; point of identification; [fig.] place of accounting; bar of judgement; checkpoint one must pass before moving into a place; [phrase “door of God”] entrance to heaven.
3. Portal; [fig.] headstone; grave marker; [metonymy] burial place.
4. Access point; [synecdoche] institution; building; estate; mansion.
5. Welcome gate; secure entrance post.
6. Garden gate; [fig.] portal to paradise; entrance to Eden; (see John 10:9).
7. Veil; set of curtains; temple courtyard entrance; passage into the sanctuary; [fig.] portal into the presence of the Lord; (see Psalms 24:9).
8. House entryway.
9. Obstacle; protection; barrier prohibiting entry; (see 2 Kings 4:33); [fig.] grave; casket; tomb.
10. Floral head; orifice of a bloom; aperture of petals; opening to the pollen-bearing parts of a blossom; [fig.] maidenhead.
11. Welcome; access to communication; opportunity for a relationship.
12. Entry; flat rectangular piece of architecture for entering and exiting a home; wooden board that encases the entrance to a building; panel that rotates with hinges on one side of an opening; (see Genesis 19:6).
13. Boundary; edge; limit; veil; curtain; (see Deuteronomy 15:17); [fig.] death; funeral pall.
14. Opening to a bedroom; (see Genesis 6:16).
15. Possibility; chance; opportunity; (see 2 Corinthians 2:12).
16. Grave; tomb; coffin lid; (see Mark 16:3).
17. Phrase. “Purple Door”: night time; period of sleep; [kenning] dream world.