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doorstep
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Word definitions for doorstep in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway [syn: doorsill , threshold ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. step of a door. The threshold of a doorway. vb. (context transitive journalism English) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from door + step (n.).
Usage examples of doorstep.
Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.
Mother and I unhitched Bor from the sledge and followed, pulling the horse behind us up the steep bank that formed the doorstep.
Here Art is no benignant goddess, but a Circe who turns her wooers into mewing Toms and Tabbies who linger about the doorsteps of her abode, unmindful of the flying brickbats and boot-jacks of the critics.
The Dunster cuisine considered almost entirely of bacon and eggs, eaten with doorsteps of fried bread and cups of strong tea, so that about their home the smell of burning fat indicated that a traditional English breakfast was available at all hours of the day and night.
Fleming had found him, he said, on his doorstep, fike a patient come to call.
Red Squads, doorstep fugitives, or movie shots most of all those framable pieces of the time, which had demanded, when the bookkeeping was done, damn near everything.
The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.
Snarling at the happenstance, Mardasper was thundering down the long, narrow back stair before the intruder could have reached the doorstep.
Sophie, by hobbling furiously, managed to get one foot up on its doorstep.
Cleaner and not so ragged kids under school age played in the better-looking streets, and here and there mums were seen whitening their doorsteps.
Tommy Phan coming home in his brand-new car to find a strange little doll lying on his doorstep.
When Cerwin showed up on the doorstep today, you charged directly into battle, only sending Rache to tell me about it as an afterthought.
Mrs Ruddle, on the doorstep, was holding a kind of court among the reporters.
The Sots, though they might harass women they suspected of being whores in and around their own stronghold or inside churches, had not yet become brave enough to go after the Scarlet Women at their own doorsteps.
Neither was my intimate in Tarbet, and I daresay neither would be overjoyed to suddenly have me turning up on their doorstep now.