closed door

1. An obstacle or restriction, as in There are no closed doors in the new field of gene therapy. [First half of 1900s]

2. close one's doors. See close down. Also see behind closed doors; close the door.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
&Aelig;Bbe	-	Anglo-Saxon
Dafna	-	Hebrew
Timotheus	-	Biblical Latin, German, Dutch
Chibuzo	-	Western African, Igbo
Corinna	kə-REEN-ə (English), kə-RIN-ə (English), ko-RI-nah (German)	English, German, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Lodovico	-	Italian