1 a small metal bar that is used to fasten a door or a gate. You raise it to open the door, and lower it into a metal hook to fasten it:
He lifted the latch and opened the door.
2 (especially BrE) a type of lock on a door that can only be opened from the outside with a key:
She listened for his key in the latch.
IDIOMS
on the latch (BrE) closed but not locked:
Can you leave the door on the latch so I can get in?
verb [VN] to fasten sth with a latch:
He closed the window and latched it.
PHRASALVERBS
latch on (to sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for latch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is latch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, latch is tagged as noun.
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