mother-in-law door
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An exterior door on the front of a house without steps or a path, especially one that is elevated.
Example Sentences
- "Not wanting them to be "mother-in-law doors", I next needed to add a small porch and a way to get from the porch to the ground."
- "Locals told Jansen and her husband (presumably tongue in cheek) that such “mother-in-law doors” were for ushering out unwanted in-laws, but that’s not the only tall tale going around about these quirky designs."
- "The only problem with this theory is that large swaths of rural Newfoundland and Labrador, where most mother-in-law doors are found, weren’t historically subject to property tax."