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# [[step|Step]] of a door. The [[threshold]] of a [[doorway]]. |
# [[step|Step]] of a door. The [[threshold]] of a [[doorway]]. |
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#* {{quote-book|year=1963|author={{w|Margery Allingham}}|title={{w|The China Governess}} |
#* {{quote-book|year=1963| author={{w|Margery Allingham}}| title={{w|The China Governess}}| chapter=10| url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W| passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the '''doorstep''' which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}} |
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#: {{ux|en|On one's '''doorstep'''.}} |
#: {{ux|en|On one's '''doorstep'''.}} |
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# {{lb|en|figuratively}} One's immediate [[neighbourhood]] or [[locality]]. |
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} One's immediate [[neighbourhood]] or [[locality]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|They want to build the prison right on our '''doorstep'''; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.}} |
#: {{ux|en|They want to build the prison right on our '''doorstep'''; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.}} |
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# A big [[slice]] of [[bread]]. |
# A big [[slice]], especially of [[bread]]. |
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#* '''2003''', Diana Wynne Jones, ''The Merlin Conspiracy'', P 241 {{ISBN|0-06-052318-2}} |
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#* I cut myself a '''doorstep''' of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it. |
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Revision as of 15:49, 17 January 2019
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Rhymes: -ɛp
Noun
doorstep (plural doorsteps)
- Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
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- On one's doorstep.
- (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
- They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
- A big slice, especially of bread.
- 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 →ISBN
- I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.
Translations
threshold of a doorway
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big slice of bread
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Verb
doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)
- (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.