Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A step leading to a door.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The step of a door; the threshold.
Wiktionary
- n. Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
- n. figuratively One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
- n. A big slice of bread.
- v. transitive To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
Etymologies
- door + step (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Although landing in the City of Light, typing on Karl Lagerfled's literal doorstep is a bit gauche, very American and maybe a bit brash.”
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“To think that a bad review could result in an incensed author and their posse showing up on my doorstep is pretty damn creepy - online stalking and harassment is equally creepy in my mind.”
“Stacey Daniels has always been attracted to the wrong type of men – and the muscular, Viking-like champion on her front doorstep is no exception.”
“Yesterday afternoon a package showed up on my doorstep from the lovely folks at Focus Features - the company that bought the film during the fest.”
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“Cliff Ronning walked to the doorstep from the left corner and attempted a backhander that Giguere stopped with his left pad.”
“The same fighting, enduring, can-do spirit Roberta used to pull herself away from death's doorstep is shared in the Zito family.”
“Never point at others, unless your .. doorstep is clean, right now, America’s doorstep is far from clean, will God punish the good people because there is less than a majority of people, that don’t follow his rules, I ask!!!!”
“Cleaning up the boom and setting it on the doorstep is a good idea but a little antagonistic," said Summer Burkes, a writer and volunteer from New Orleans.”
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“I had some pretty powerful weapons I was going to use against her, but before we could spew our poison we found ourselves on Angela and Chael's doorstep, which is probably right where we needed to be at that moment.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doorstep’.
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North American sports reporting
North American sports reporting seems to use vernacular to a much greater extent than its British equivalent. I think this is partly because of the stat-heavy nature of NA sports: reports would be ...
snap, dandy, author, nifty, rookie, storied, streak, ice, score a tally, shutout, blank, dish and 13 more...
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Adore doors
doornik, doornail, door jam, doorjamb, doorbell, doorbelle, doorbella, adoor, closeddoor, door-to-door, dutch-door, door nailed and 52 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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Whatever Works (2009)
Words from 2009 'Whatever Works' film.
fault, racket, unto, flaw, fallacious, notion, decent, embalm, filch, delusion, delusions of gran..., grandeur and 135 more...
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hatful of hollow
some of the words immortalised by Morrissey on Hatful of Hollow
humdrum, rain, ashamed, sick, blushed, mammary, conjugal, punctured, desolate, decree, dull, plain and 24 more...
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Misc. Nouns
tambourine, bayonet, transient, copulation, rhythm, brain, odyssey, debauchery, heist, soldering, inertia, notion and 5 more...
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Filled bread in North-West England
sandwich, sarnie, butty, batch, nudger, doorstep, barm, cob, roll, bun, bin lid
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Doorways
threshold, hinge, doorknob, doorknocker, doorbell, doorway, peephole, doormat, window, curtain, latch, lock and 7 more...
Tweets
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yarb In (ice) hockey, a particular location on the ice.
"Chris Kunitz buried a rebound from the doorstep" - Vancouver Sun, 1-10-08 Jan 10, 2008