secret door
Concealed building access
A secret door is a concealed entrance designed to be undetectable or difficult to find—hidden behind a bookcase, disguised as part of a wall, or accessible only through a hidden mechanism.
The term appears frequently in adventure games and fiction, where discovering secret doors reveals hidden rooms or passages: The detective pressed the candlestick and a secret door swung open.
Real architecture sometimes includes them for privacy, security, or historical intrigue.
- hiddenKept out of sight
- hidden passageDisguised route between spaces
- passageSegment of text
- concealedMade invisible deliberately
- bookcaseFurniture holding volumes
false wall · lever · mystery · entrance · trapdoor · wall · panel · switch · escape · escape route · panic room · hidden compartment · tunnel · latch · disguised · portal · mechanism · reveal
- mystery objectscrystal ball, magic mirror, ancient scroll, glowing orb, sealed letter
- doorwaysthreshold, passage, portal, entryway, gateway
- hiding placeshideout, bolthole, cubbyhole, den, hidey-hole
- secret passageshidden panel, hidden staircase, hidden path, underground tunnel, escape tunnel
- exitsexit, escape, way out, egress, emergency exit
- dungeon crawlersdungeon, loot, treasure chest, monster, trap
secret doormain entrance
Principal point of entry
front door · public entrance · grand entrance · main gate · front gate
secret doorpublic entrance
Access point for all
open door · unlocked door · public access · accessible entrance · fire exit
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