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AJAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slightly open
Example:
the door was ajar
Classified under:
Similar:
open; unfastened (affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed)
Context examples:
I found Adele peeping through the schoolroom door, which she held ajar.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Indeed, early as it was when Dame Eliza began to stir, it seemed that others could be earlier still, for the door was ajar, and the learned student of Cambridge had taken himself off, with a mind which was too intent upon the high things of antiquity to stoop to consider the four-pence which he owed for bed and board.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The safe was ajar, and Holmes standing in front of it was removing dossier after dossier, swiftly examining each, and then packing it neatly in Von Bork’s valise.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was in my room; the door was ajar: I could both listen and watch.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After a little while Mr. Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
