doorstep

Examples

• All

• Other countries on our doorstep are trying that approach and are paying the price.

• Did you intend to leave us standing on the doorstep all day?

  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

• And then you turn up on my doorstep

  Wrecking Ball (2020)

• We stand on the doorstep of a new millennium.

  Bulworth (1998)

• Perrin returned to the doorstep, sat with his head in his hands.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Well, last night there was a knock at the door and behold, there was Raymond on my doorstep.

  The Big White (2005)

• One afternoon, an elderly man arrived at Dowell's doorstep claiming to be the girl's grandfather.

  Academic text (2008)

• You and Cerise showed up on my doorstep full of fear over the fate of poor Katterina.

  Fiction book (1990)

• He has also brought the cornfields right up to their doorstep to emphasize the working land.

• The package was left on the doorstep while I was out running errands.

Synonyms

S

step

vsdoorstep

526 1.0

A flat part of a stair where you put your foot when going up or down

is specifically the doorway base rather than any stair tread

T

threshold

vsdoorstep

38 3.3

A strip at the bottom of a doorway you step over

is the common term for the entry base people cross to enter

S

stoop

vsdoorstep

• US

37 3.9

A small set of steps at the front of a house

is the single bottom platform at an entrance rather than an external porch

D

doorsill

vsdoorstep

1 3.7

The flat bottom part of a doorway that you step over to go into a room or building

is a more general base at an entrance that people cross

Idioms

O

on someone's doorstep

1 3.0

Very near someone's home so they can get there easily

How High

scaffold

7 4.0

platform

90 1.6

catstep

9.0

step stool

• US

2 2.0

footstool

7 2.7

doorstep

126 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology